John Cornforth
 Sir John Cornforth | |
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 John Cornforth (1975) | |
| Born | John Warcup Cornforth, Jr. 7 September 1917 Sydney, Australie |
| Dee'd | 8 December 2013 (aged 96) Sussex, Ingland, Unitit Kinrick |
| Residence | Brighton, Unitit Kinrick |
| Naitionality | Australie |
| Citizenship | Australie, Breetish |
| Alma mater | Varsity o Sydney, St Catherine's College, Oxford |
| Kent for | Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Organic chemistry |
| Institutions | Varsity o Oxford Varsity o Warwick Varsity o Sussex |
Sir John Warcup "Kappa" Cornforth, Jr.,[2] AC, CBE, FRS, FAA (7 September 1917 – 8 December 2013), wis an Australie–Breetish chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his wirk on the stereochemistry o enzyme-catalysed reactions,[3][4] acomin the anly Nobel laureate born in New Sooth Wales.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Cornforth, Sir, John Warcup: Library and Archive Catalogue". London: The Royal Society. Archived frae the original on 27 Mairch 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ↑ John Cornforth, NNDB
- ↑ Hanson, Jim (2014). "John Cornforth (1917–2013) Nobel-prizewinning chemist who tracked how enzymes build cholesterol". Nature. 506 (7486): 35. doi:10.1038/506035a. PMID 24499912.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica. (2012.) "Sir John Cornforth".
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