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John Cornforth

John Cornforth

Australian-British chemist
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... Wikipedia
Born: September 7, 1917, Sydney, Australia
Died: December 8, 2013 (age 96 years), Sussex, United Kingdom
Education: St Catherine's College (1939–1941), The University of Sydney (1934–1937), and Sydney Boys High School (1933)
Spouse: Rita Harradence (m. 1941–2012)