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Sir John Cornforth

3,182 views · Published 6 September 2017 · 1:23 · Indexed 17 October 2026

Channel: Rajamanickam Antonimuthu · 2017 · Science & Technology

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The Search Engine Google is showing this Doodle in few countries for the Sir John Cornforth’s 100th Birthday
Sir John 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.

During childhood, Cornforth began to lose his hearing, and he was completely deaf by the age of 20. Unable to hear the lectures in his classes at the University of Sydney, he devoured chemistry textbooks on his own.

At Oxford, Conforth joined the team that made great strides in the study of penicillin. He then returned to his earlier research on the three-dimensional structure ("stereochemistry") of various chemical reactions. In 1975, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for this work. Cornforth and co-laureate Vladimir Prelog studied the enzymes that activate changes in organic compounds. Their conclusions opened the door to many discoveries, including the development of cholesterol-lowering drugs.

See the Sir John Cornforth’s 100th Birthday Google Doodle at https://www.google.com/doodles/sir-john-cornforths-100th-birthday
Read more details about Sir John Cornforth at  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cornforth

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