Sir John Cornforth-Australia's only Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
--WELCOME TO MY CHANNEL-- --PLEASE,SUBSCRIBE MY CHANNEL-- Sir John Warcup "Kappa" Cornforth, Jr. AC, CBE, FRS, FAA (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. Cornforth investigated enzymes that catalyse changes in organic compounds, the substrates, by taking the place of hydrogen atoms in a substrate's chains and rings. In his syntheses and descriptions of the structure of various terpenes, olefins, and steroids, Cornforth determined specifically which cluster of hydrogen atoms in a substrate were replaced by an enzyme to effect a given change in the substrate, allowing him to detail the biosynthesis of cholesterol.For this work, he won a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975, alongside co-recipient Vladimir Prelog, and was knighted in 1977. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- sir john cornforth,cornforth,sir john,australia,nobel,nobel prize,nobel prize winner,chemistry,only,nobel laureate,nobel prize 2017,nobel prize chemistry,kappa,warcup,hydrogen atom,biosynthesis,cholesterol,1975,vladimir prelog,1977
--WELCOME TO MY CHANNEL-- --PLEASE,SUBSCRIBE MY CHANNEL-- Sir John Warcup "Kappa" Cornforth, Jr. AC, CBE, FRS, FAA (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. Cornforth investigated enzymes that catalyse changes in organic compounds, the substrates, by taking the place of hydrogen atoms in a substrate's chains and rings. In his syntheses and descriptions of the structure of various terpenes, olefins, and steroids, Cornforth determined specifically which cluster of hydrogen atoms in a substrate were replaced by an enzyme to effect a given change in the substrate, allowing him to detail the biosynthesis of cholesterol.For this work, he won a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975, alongside co-recipient Vladimir Prelog, and was knighted in 1977. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- sir john cornforth,cornforth,sir john,australia,nobel,nobel prize,nobel prize winner,chemistry,only,nobel laureate,nobel prize 2017,nobel prize chemistry,kappa,warcup,hydrogen atom,biosynthesis,cholesterol,1975,vladimir prelog,1977