Portrait of John Warcup Cornforth
Date
ca.1960s
Sitter
John Warcup Cornforth (1917 - 2013, Australian) , Knight Chemist, Chemist
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 216mm
width (print): 164mm
width (print): 164mm
Subject
Description
Full-length portrait of John Warcup Cornforth standing in a tennis court wearing tennis whites and holding a tennis trophy [Rothschild cup?], and posing with his opponent on his left as viewed. 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.
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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