John Cornforth
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 11 years ago |
Date of birth | September 7,1917 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Sydney |
Australia | |
Date of died | December 8,2013 |
Died | Sussex |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | Rita Harradence |
Parents | Hilda Eipper |
John Warcup Cornforth | |
Job | Chemist |
Education | St Catherine's College |
The University of Sydney | |
Sydney Boys High School | |
Books | Early Georgian interiors |
The Inspiration of the Past | |
English interiors 1790-1848 | |
Search for a Style | |
London Interiors: From the Archives of Country Life | |
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Clarence House | |
Pyne's royal residences | |
Country houses in Britain, can they survive? | |
The Country Houses of England, 1948-1998 | |
British Embassy, Paris: The House and Its Works of Art | |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Copley Medal | |
Royal Medal | |
Davy Medal | |
Corday-Morgan Prize | |
Centenary Medal | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 646321 |
John Cornforth Life story
Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr. , AC, CBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian–British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales.