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.
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Sir John Cornforth |
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 John Cornforth (1975) |
| Born | John Warcup Cornforth, Jr.
7 September 1917(1917-09-07)
Sydney, Australie |
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| Dee'd | 8 December 2013(2013-12-08) (aged 96)
Sussex, Ingland, Unitit Kinrick |
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| Residence | Brighton, Unitit Kinrick |
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| Naitionality | Australie |
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| Citizenship | Australie,
Breetish |
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| Alma mater | Varsity o Sydney,
St Catherine's College, Oxford |
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| Kent for | Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions |
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| Awairds |
- Corday–Morgan Medal (1949)
- Fellae o the Ryal Society (1953)[1]
- Davy Medal (1968)
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1975)
- Ryal Medal (1976)
- Copley Medal (1982)
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| Scientific career |
| Fields | Organic chemistry |
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| Institutions | Varsity o Oxford
Varsity o Warwick
Varsity o Sussex |
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