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John Cornforth

John Cornforth
John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)

Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., 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.

7 September 1917

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