Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12397

    Portrait of John Warcup Cornforth and Rita Harriet Cornforth

    Date
    1970
    Sitter
    John Warcup Cornforth (1917 - 2013, Australian) , Knight Chemist, Chemist
    Rita Harriet Cornforth (1915 - 2012, Australian) , Organic chemist
    Creator - Organisation
    The Leicagraph Co, Photographer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 185mm
    width (print): 127mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of John Warcup Cornforth and Rita Harriet Cornforth in right profile.

    Stamped on the reverse ‘The Leicagraph Co. PTY. LTD. 5 STRAND ARCADE, SYDNEY’ and inscribed ‘Sydney, April 1970’ and pencilled ‘R649 R12’.

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

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