Cornforth, Sir John Warcup

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Cornforth, Sir John Warcup (wôr`kəp côrn`fərth), 1917–, Australian chemist, Ph.D. Oxford Univ., 1941. Although Cornforth suffered a hearing loss from childhood, he was aided in communicating by his wife and co-researcher Rita Harradence. His main affiliations were with the National Institute for Medical Research in London (1946–62) and the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology for Shell Research, Ltd. (1962–75). In 1975 he and Vladimir Prelog Prelog, Vladimir , 1906–98, Swiss chemist, b. Sarejevo, Austria-Hungary (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina). Educated in Prague, he worked in Yugoslavia until the German invasion in 1941, when he moved to Switzerland to teach at the Federal Institute of Technology
..... Click the link for more information. were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their efforts to relate molecular structure to the properties of chemical compounds.

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