Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12335

    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
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    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.
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