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Sir John Warcup Cornforth was born on September 7, 1917 in Sydney, Australia. Cornforth got worse and worse as he got older. Cornforth’s teachers encouraged him to choose a career that he could be good at even though he was deaf. Cornforth studied a lot by himself. He read books and practiced experiments at home. He even had his own laboratory at home. |
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Cornforth and his wife, Rita Harradence |
He went to Sydney University. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in chemistry. He also graduated with honors! He was awarded a scholarship for his doctorate degree in England at Oxford University. Only two scholarships were given. He eventually married Rita Harradence. She was awarded the other scholarship. |
He received his doctorate degree in 1941. After that he worked at the Mill Hill Research Laboratories of Britain’s Medical Research Council. While he worked here he studied steroids. After that he was the director of the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology. He studied cholesterol there. |
Cornforth in his lab |
Univeristy of Warwick |
He was a professor at the University of Warwick for a few years. He left Warwick to be a professor at the University of Sussex. |
Cornforth liked to communicate through writing. He could read lips, but was not very good at reading stranger’s lips. He never used interpreters or note-takers. He liked to read and write. He published hundreds of articles instead of giving lectures. |
University of Sussex |
Nobel Prize Medal
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Cornforth became a knight in 1977. He became a Commander of the British Empire. In 1975 Cornforth won the Nobel Prize. He won this because he studied cholesterol. |
Honors CIBA Medal of the Biochemical Society Stouffer Prize Davy Medal of the Royal Society Corday-Morgan Medal Flintoff Medal Godfrey Copley Medal Ernest Guenther Award Prix Roussel Award England’s Royal Society fellow National Academy of Sciences foreign associate Australian Academy of Science member Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences member
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Attention
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Web Links http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1975/cornforth-autobio.html http://deafscientistcorner.pbworks.com/Sir+John+Warcup+Cornforth References http://vega.org.uk/video/programme/19 Lang, H. G., & Meath-Lang, B. (1995). Sir John Warcup Cornforth. In A Biographical Dictionary: Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences (pp.83-86). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Cornforth, John W. (1975). John Cornforth Autobiography. In Wilhelm Odelberg (Ed.), Les Prix Nobel. Stockholm: The Nobel Foundation. |