John Cornforth

Sir John Warcup "Kappa" Cornforth, Jr.,John Cornforth, NNDB 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.Encyclopædia Britannica. (2012.) "Sir John Cornforth".

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1994.

Cornforth died on 14 December 2013, from natural causes at his Brighton home, aged 96.

References

Other websites
 Face To Face Interview With John Cornfoth by The Vega Science Trust  (audio)
 How to be right and wrong with John Cornforth by The Vega Science Trust 
 vega.org.uk/video/programme/19

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