Professor Sir John Warcup Cornforth
Professor of chemistry
- Born
- 7 September 1917, Sydney, New South Wales
- Died
- 14 December 2013, Sussex, England
- Sex
- Male
- Father
- John Cornforth (schoolteacher)
- Mother
- Hilda Eipper
- Married Rita Harriet Harradence [qv]
Degrees
| 1938 | Bachelor of Science | The University of Sydney |
| 1939 | Master of Science | The University of Sydney |
Career
- FRS.
- Chemist.
- Royal Society Research Prof, USussex 1975.
- Co-author of "The Chemistry of Penicillin" (1949).
- Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1975 (for his "efforts to relate molecular structure to the properties of chemical compounds").
- Knight bachelor 1977.
Sources
PeopleAustralia: https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/cornforth-sir-john-warcup-17375
Other Online: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000325b.htm
Other:
- Ryerson.