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John Cornforth

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Gender Male
Death10 years ago
Date of birth September 7,1917
Zodiac sign Virgo
Born Sydney
Australia
Date of died December 8,2013
DiedSussex
United Kingdom
SpouseRita Harradence
ParentsHilda Eipper
John Warcup Cornforth
Job Chemist
Education St Catherine's College
The University of Sydney
Sydney Boys High School
BooksEarly Georgian interiors
The Inspiration of the Past
English interiors 1790-1848
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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
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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.

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