The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975
Awarded on: 1975-10-17
"for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions"
Affiliations:
- University of Sussex – Brighton, United Kingdom
John Warcup Cornforth
Born: 1917-09-07 in Sydney, Australia
Gender: male
Field: Australian-British chemist (1917–2013)
Biography
Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., 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.