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John Cornforth — Age, Birthday & Biography

Born: 7 September 1917 · Died: 8 December 2013 · Age at death: 96

How old was John Cornforth when he died?

John Cornforth died aged 96. He was born on 7 September 1917 and died on 8 December 2013.

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who studied enzyme-catalysed reactions

Did you know?He was profoundly deaf from his teenage years and communicated with his colleagues primarily through lip-reading and written notes.

Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., (7 September 1917 – 8 December 2013) 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.

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Born: September 7, 1917 · Sydney, Australia
Died: December 8, 2013
Nationality: Australian
Known for: Science

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