Portrait of George Joseph Popják
Date
ca.1960s
Sitter
George Joseph Popják (1914 - 1998) , Biochemist
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Dimensions
height (print): 203mm
width (print): 201mm
height (paper support): 252mm
width (paper support): 255mm
width (print): 201mm
height (paper support): 252mm
width (paper support): 255mm
Subject
Description
Full length portrait of George Joseph Popják leaning against and gazing in through the window of the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology, Shell Research Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent.
Inscribed on the front in blue ink ‘To Kappa + Rita with love George’
George Joseph Popják (1914-1998) was a Hungarian biochemist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1961.
John Warcup Cornforth (1917-2013) was an Australian chemist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1953. He acquired the nickname "Kappa", after the Greek letter he used to identify his personal laboratory glassware.
Rita Harriet Cornforth (1915-2012) was not a Fellow of the Royal Society she was an Australian organic chemist.
Inscribed on the front in blue ink ‘To Kappa + Rita with love George’
George Joseph Popják (1914-1998) was a Hungarian biochemist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1961.
John Warcup Cornforth (1917-2013) was an Australian chemist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1953. He acquired the nickname "Kappa", after the Greek letter he used to identify his personal laboratory glassware.
Rita Harriet Cornforth (1915-2012) was not a Fellow of the Royal Society she was an Australian organic chemist.
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