Sir John Warcup Cornforth was awarded the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions" and the molecular structure of cholesterol. He shared this prize with Vladimir Prelog, whose research focused on...

John Warcup Cornforth received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1975 for his research on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. The prize was shared with Vladimir Prelog for his work on the stereochemistry of organic molecules and...

1917- Australian chemist whose work in many aspects of biochemistry led to a fuller appreciation of the manner in which many hormones and other compounds affect the body. Deaf for most of his life, Cornforth studied chemistry in wartime England, first...

Sir John Warcup 'Kappa' Cornforth FRS (born 7 September 1917), is a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. He has been profoundly deaf since his teens. Cornforth was born...

Early Georgian Interiors John Cornforth Yale University Press, 60 [pounds sterling]/$85 ISBN 0 300 10330 1 If one had to summarise with a single quotation and illustration this immense volume, which has been published posthumously, and is appropriately as...

MONTREAL -- Mark Cornforth wasn't yet born when his father, Robert, spent five years as the physical therapist for the Canadiens from 1955-60. But the Montreal native remembers growing up hearing tales about the storied franchise as well as making a couple of trips...