Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12276

    John Warcup Cornforth receiving tennis cup

    Date
    ca.1960s
    Sitter
    John Warcup Cornforth (1917 - 2013, Australian) , Knight Chemist, Chemist
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 164mm
    width (print): 218mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of John Warcup Cornforth receiving tennis trophy [Rothschild cup?] with racket under his arm and his opponent behind. Taken from inside a tennis court, possibly at the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology, Shell Research Ltd, Sittingbourne.

    From a group of photographs in an envelope inscribed ‘Prof Cornforth. Milstead. TENNIS. ROTHSCHILD CUP. MID 60s’

    John Warcup Cornforth (1917-2013) was an Australian chemist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1953.
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