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| complete name: |
John Warcup Cornforth |
| nobel prize: |
chemistry |
| award year: |
1975 |
| together with: |
Vladimir Prelog |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/2 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975 was divided equally between John Warcup Cornforth "for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions" and Vladimir Prelog "for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
John |
| family name: |
Cornforth |
| occupation: |
chemist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| field of work: |
organic chemistry |
| work location: |
University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom |
| description: |
John Warcup Cornforth 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. Cornforth investigated enzymes that catalyse changes in organic compounds, the substrates, by taking the place of hydrogen atoms in a substrate's chains and rings. In his syntheses and descriptions of the structure of various terpenes, olefins, and steroids, Cornforth determined specifically which cluster of hydrogen atoms in a substrate were replaced by an enzyme to effect a given change in the substrate, allowing him to detail the biosynthesis of cholesterol. For this work, he won a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975, alongside co-recipient Vladimir Prelog, and was knighted in 1977. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1975/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1917 |
| date death: |
2013 |
| usual name: |
John Cornforth |
