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    Credit: ©Timothy Wallace
    Image number: RS.12291

    Portrait of John Warcup Cornforth

    Date
    1977
    Sitter
    John Warcup Cornforth (1917 - 2013, Australian) , Knight Chemist, Chemist
    Creator
    Timothy Wallace (British) , Chemist
    Object type
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    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 239mm
    width (print): 178mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three-quarter length portrait of John Warcup Cornforth wearing a lab coat and seated in a laboratory holding a Leeds United football mug. Taken at the University of Sussex during his Royal Society Research Professorship.

    Inscribed on the reverse ‘Sussex 1977’.

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