Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12385

    Portrait of Rita Harriet Cornforth and George Joseph Popják

    Date
    1958
    Sitter
    Rita Harriet Cornforth (1915 - 2012, Australian) , Biochemist
    George Joseph Popják (1914 - 1998) , Biochemist
    Creator - Organisation
    Owen & Moroney, Photographer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 117mm
    width (print): 159mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Rita Harriet Cornforth and George Joseph Popják in conversation with unidentified women, taken at the CIBA Conference.

    Stamped on the reverse ‘Photograph by Owen & Moroney, 400a, Uxbridge Rd, Shepherds Bush. Tel. SHEpherds Bush 1141 Please Quote Ref No… 30590/4’ and inscribed ‘Ciba Conference May 1958’.

    George Joseph Popják (1914-1998) was a Hungarian biochemist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1961.

    Rita Harriet Cornforth (1915-2012) was an Australian organic chemist.
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