John Cornforth
Sir John Cornforth | |
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 Cornforth in 1975 | |
| Born | John Warcup Cornforth, Jr. 7 September 1917 |
| Died | 14 December 2013 (aged 96) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Citizenship | Australian, British |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney, St Catherine's College, Oxford |
| Known for | Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions |
| Awards | Corday–Morgan Medal (1949) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1975)Royal Medal (1976) Copley Medal (1982) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Organic chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Oxford, University of Sussex |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert 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]
Cornforth died on 14 December 2013 from natural causes at his Brighton home, aged 96.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ John Cornforth, NNDB
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica. (2012.) "Sir John Cornforth".
Other websites
[change | change source]- Face To Face Interview With John Cornfoth by The Vega Science Trust Archived 2008-09-09 at the Wayback Machine (audio)
- How to be right and wrong with John Cornforth by The Vega Science Trust Archived 2005-11-20 at the Wayback Machine
- vega.org.uk/video/programme/19
Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
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| 1901–1925 | van 't Hoff (1901) · E. Fischer (1902) · Arrhenius (1903) · Ramsay (1904) · von Baeyer (1905) · Moissan (1906) · Buchner (1907) · Rutherford (1908) · Ostwald (1909) · Wallach (1910) · Curie (1911) · Grignard / Sabatier (1912) · Werner (1913) · Richards (1914) · Willstätter (1915) · Haber (1918) · Nernst (1920) · Soddy (1921) · Aston (1922) · Pregl (1923) · Zsigmondy (1925) |
| 1926–1950 | Svedberg (1926) · Wieland (1927) · Windaus (1928) · Harden / von Euler-Chelpin (1929) · H. Fischer (1930) · Bosch / Bergius (1931) · Langmuir (1932) · Urey (1934) · F. Joliot-Curie / I. Joliot-Curie (1935) · Debye (1936) · Haworth / Karrer (1937) · Kuhn (1938) · Butenandt / Ružička (1939) · de Hevesy (1943) · Hahn (1944) · Virtanen (1945) · Sumner / Northrop / Stanley (1946) · Robinson (1947) · Tiselius (1948) · Giauque (1949) · Diels / Alder (1950) |
| 1951–1975 | McMillan / Seaborg (1951) · Martin / Synge (1952) · Staudinger (1953) · Pauling (1954) · du Vigneaud (1955) · Hinshelwood / Semyonov (1956) · Todd (1957) · Sanger (1958) · Heyrovský (1959) · Libby (1960) · Calvin (1961) · Perutz / Kendrew (1962) · Ziegler / Natta (1963) · Hodgkin (1964) · Woodward (1965) · Mulliken (1966) · Eigen / Norrish / Porter (1967) · Onsager (1968) · Barton / Hassel (1969) · Leloir (1970) · Herzberg (1971) · Anfinsen / Moore / Stein (1972) · E. O. Fischer / Wilkinson (1973) · Flory (1974) · Cornforth / Prelog (1975) |
| 1976–2000 | Lipscomb (1976) · Prigogine (1977) · Mitchell (1978) · Brown / Wittig (1979) · Berg / Gilbert / Sanger (1980) · Fukui / Hoffmann (1981) · Klug (1982) · Taube (1983) · Merrifield (1984) · Hauptman / Karle (1985) · Herschbach / Lee / Polanyi (1986) · Cram / Lehn / Pedersen (1987) · Deisenhofer / Huber / Michel (1988) · Altman / Cech (1989) · Corey (1990) · Ernst (1991) · Marcus (1992) · Mullis / Smith (1993) · Olah (1994) · Crutzen / Molina / Rowland (1995) · Curl / Kroto / Smalley (1996) · Boyer / Walker / Skou (1997) · Kohn / Pople (1998) · Zewail (1999) · Heeger / MacDiarmid / Shirakawa (2000) |
| 2001–present | Knowles / Noyori / Sharpless (2001) · Fenn / Tanaka / Wüthrich (2002) · Agre / MacKinnon (2003) · Ciechanover / Hershko / Rose (2004) · Grubbs / Schrock / Chauvin (2005) · Kornberg (2006) · Ertl (2007) · Shimomura / Chalfie / Tsien (2008) · Ramakrishnan / Steitz / Yonath (2009) · Heck / Negishi / Suzuki (2010) · Shechtman (2011) · Lefkowitz / Kobilka (2012) · Karplus / Levitt / Warshel (2013) · Betzig / Hell / Moerner (2014) · Lindahl / Modrich / Sancar (2015) · Sauvage / Stoddart / Feringa (2016) · Dubochet / Frank / Henderson (2017) · Arnold / Smith / Winter (2018) · Goodenough / Whittingham / Yoshino (2019) · Charpentier / Doudna (2020) · MacMillan / List (2021) · Bertozzi / Meldal / Sharpless (2022) · Bawendi / Brus / Ekimov (2023) |
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