John Cornforth

Sir John Warcup "Kappa" Cornforth, Jr.,[1] AC, CBE, FRS, FAA (7 September 1917 – 14 December 2013) was an Australian-British chemist. He won the Nobel…

John Cornforth
Sir John Cornforth
Cornforth in 1975
Born
John Warcup Cornforth, Jr.

7 September 1917
Died14 December 2013(2013-12-14) (aged 96)
NationalityAustralian
CitizenshipAustralian,
British
Alma materUniversity of Sydney,
St Catherine's College, Oxford
Known forStereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions
AwardsCorday–Morgan Medal (1949)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1975)
Royal Medal (1976)
Copley Medal (1982)
Scientific career
FieldsOrganic chemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford,
University of Sussex
Doctoral advisorRobert Robinson

Sir John Warcup "Kappa" Cornforth, Jr.,[1] AC, CBE, FRS, FAA (7 September 1917 – 14 December 2013) was an Australian-British chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975, for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions.[2]

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1994.[3]

Cornforth died on 14 December 2013, from natural causes at his Brighton home, aged 96.

References

  1. ↑ John Cornforth, NNDB
  2. ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica. (2012.) "Sir John Cornforth".
  3. ↑ "John Cornforth". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.

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