Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12315

    Group portrait of three chemists

    Date
    2001
    Sitter
    John Warcup Cornforth (1917 - 2013, Australian) , Knight Chemist, Chemist
    Rita Harriet Cornforth (1915 - 2012, Australian) , Organic chemist
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 149mm
    width (print): 204mm
    height (paper support): 204mm
    width (paper support): 249mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three-quarter length portrait of John and Rita Cornforth with unknown gentleman, seated on a sofa at the Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, London, on the occasion of the Summer Party.

    Inscribed on the back ‘3778/B, 14’

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

    Rita Harriet Cornforth (1915-2012) was not a Fellow of the Royal Society she was an Australian organic chemist.
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