Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12370

    Portrait of John Warcup Cornforth

    Date
    1960
    Sitter
    John Warcup Cornforth (1917 - 2013, Australian) , Knight Chemist, Chemist
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 217mm
    width (print): 173mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of John Warcup Cornforth with unknown gentleman. He stands holding a spiral bound notebook inscribed ‘CROXLEY’ and wearing a name badge with the initials ‘IUPAC’. Possibly taken at an event associated with the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

    Inscribed on the reverse ‘UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY 1960’.

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