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English: Portrait of Charles Vernon Boys, 1915, by John Collier. The painting is a reconstruction of his demonstrating with soap bubbles at lectures for the young at the London Institute at New Year 1889/1890 and at the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 1899/1900. Charles Vernon Boys (1855-1944) was a British physicist and inventor, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1888.
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Source https://royalsociety.org/-/media/events/2020/09/open-house/album/boys.jpg
Author John Collier

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Portrait of Charles Vernon Boys, 1915, by John Collier, demonstrating his work on soap bubbles.

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