Sir John Warcup `` Kappa '' Cornforth , Jr. , AC , CBE , FRS , FAA ( 7 September 1917 -- 8 December 2013 ) , was an AustralianBritish 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 .
< indicator name = `` top-icon '' > </indicator> Sir John Warcup `` Kappa '' Cornforth , Jr. , AC , CBE , FRS , FAA ( 7 September 1917 -- 14 December 2013 ) was an Australian-British chemist . He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions .