Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12453

    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): 134mm
    width (print): 136mm
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    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of John Warcup Cornforth and Rita Harriet Cornforth in three-quarter profile to the left as viewed. 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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