Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12392

    Portrait of Rita Harriet Cornforth and John Warcup Cornforth

    Date
    1977
    Sitter
    John Warcup Cornforth (1917 - 2013, Australian) , Knight Chemist, Chemist
    Rita Harriet Cornforth (1915 - 2012, Australian) , Organic chemist
    Creator - Organisation
    Owen & Moroney, Photographer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 126mm
    width (print): 177mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three-quarter length portrait of Rita Harriet Cornforth and John Warcup Cornforth, seated at the Ciba Foundation symposium.

    Stamped on the reverse ‘Photograph of OWEN & MORONEY 336 Uxbridge Road, W.12 TEL 01-743 1141’ and pencilled ‘4421-4’.

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

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