Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12452

    Portrait of John Warcup Cornforth and Rita Harriet Cornforth

    Date
    1941
    Sitter
    John Warcup Cornforth (1917 - 2013, Australian) , Knight Chemist, Chemist
    Rita Harriet Cornforth (1915 - 2012, Australian) , Organic chemist
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 133mm
    width (print): 140mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of John Warcup Cornforth and Rita Harriet Cornforth gazing into each others eyes. Taken on their wedding day in Oxford, September 1941.

    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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