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| Born | John Warcup Cornforth Jr, September 7, 1917, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | December 8, 2013, Sussex, England, United Kingdom |
| Residence | Brighton, United Kingdom |
| Citizenship | Australian, British |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Fields | Organic chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Oxford, University of Warwick, University of Sussex |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney (B.Sc.), St Catherine's College, Oxford (D.Phil.) |
| Thesis | Synthesis of analogues of steroid hormones (1941) |
| Known for | Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, Cholesterol total synthesis, Cornforth reagent, Cornforth rearrangement |
| Notable awards | Corday–Morgan Medal (1953), FRS (1953), Davy Medal (1968), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1975), Royal Medal (1976), Copley Medal (1982) |
| Spouse | Rita Harradence |
About John Cornforth
Chemist John Cornforth was born in Australia on September 7, 1917. He dies at the age of 96, on December 8, 2013.
An Australian–British chemist who earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on enzyme-catalyzed reactions' stereochemistry. In 1982, he was awarded the Copley Medal, and in 1977, he was knighted.
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John Cornforth before becoming famous
John Cornforth was born in the Zodiac sign Virgo (The Maiden), and 1917 is also the year of Serpent (蛇) in the Chinese Zodiac.
He began to get deaf at the age of ten and was entirely deaf by the age of twenty.
Achievement of John Cornforth
He was the first to describe the production of cholesterol in detail.
John Cornforth's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship
After marrying Rita Harradence in 1941, he had three children with her.
John Cornforth Collabed with
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry the same year as Pharmacologist Paul Florey.
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