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John Cornforth's Death

Born (Birthday) September 7, 1917

Death Date December 8, 2013

Age of Death 96 years

Cause of Death N/A

Profession Chemist

The chemist John Cornforth died at the age of 96. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

An Australian–British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his research into the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions. He also won the Copley Medal in 1982 and was knighted in 1977.

He had three children with his wife Rita Harradence after they married 1941.

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My old friend Vlado Prelog has asked me to offer, from both of us, our thanks to the Royal Academy of Sciences and to the Nobel Foundation for the honour conferred on us.

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In 1962, Popjak and I left the service of the Medical Research Council and became co-directors of the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology set up by Shell Research Ltd.

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The total loss of hearing was a process that lasted more than a decade, but it was sufficiently gradual for me to attend Sydney Boys’ High School and to profit from the teaching there.

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I started doing experiments – mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting – in my mother’s laundry at home.

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By combining chemical, biochemical and physical techniques, it has thus become possible to investigate the nature of enzymic catalysis in a novel manner, complementary to the other approaches which have developed over the same period.