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Ha vinto il [[premio Nobel per la chimica]] nel 1975 per il suo lavoro sulla [[stereochimica]] delle reazioni [[catalisi|catalizzate da enzimi]]. Era completamente [[sordità|sordo]] sin dalla [[adolescenza]].
Gli studi di Cornforth hanno avuto profonda influenza nelle ricerche compiute sulla [[penicillina]] durante la guerra. Fu collaboratore nella scrittura de "The Chemistry of Penicillin" (Princeton University Press 1949). Ricevette il premio Nobel con [[Vladimir Prelog]] nel 1975 e fu nominato cavaliere nel 1977. Fu premiato con la [[medaglia Corday-Morgan]] nel 1953, con la [[medaglia Davy]] nel 1968, con la [[medaglia Royal]] nel 1976 e infine con la [[medaglia Copley]] nel 1982.
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== Educazione ==
Cornforth studiò alla Sydney Boys' High School, dove riuscì a eccellere, superando i test di inglese, matematica, scienze, francese, greco e latino<ref>{{Cite news |author=Sperans |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19320118&id=meNjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=25EDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4470,1530519 |title=Bright students: intermediate stage |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=18 January 1932 |page=8}}</ref> e venne ispirato dal suo insegnante di chimica, Leonard ("Len") Basser,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Doherty |first=P. C. |year=2006 |title=The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science |publisher=Columbia University Press |page=89}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.shsobu.org.au/our-patrons/ |title=Patrons |website=Sydney High School Old Boys Union}}</ref> cambiando così le sue aspirazioni dalla legge alla chimica.<ref name="UniSyd 2" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Cribb |first=J. |url=http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/630/full |title=Master of the molecules |magazine=[[Cosmos (magazine)|Cosmos]] |date=6 September 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905022725/http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/630/full |archivedate=5 September 2012 }}</ref>
Nel 1934, a 16 anni, Cornforth si iscrisse all'[[Università di Sydney]],<ref name="Eckert"/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/john-cornforth-brilliant-chemist-was-profoundly-deaf-20131213-2zcou.html |title=John Cornforth: Brilliant chemist was profoundly deaf |date=14 December 2013 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref> dove studiò Chimica organica alla University of Sydney School of Chemistry e dove si laureò con un Bachelor of Science con
Mentre studiava all'Università di Sydney, Cornforth conobbe la sua futura moglie, collega chimica e collaboratrice scientifica, [[Rita Harradence]].<ref name="SGGHS"/><ref name="Cornforths"/> Harradence si era laureata alla St. George Girls High School<ref name="SGGHS">{{cite web |url=http://www.sgghs.com.au/our-school/our-archives/old-girls/page:2 |title=Notable Old Girls – History of St George Girls High School – Our School |website=St George Girls High School |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702015332/http://www.sgghs.com.au/our-school/our-archives/old-girls/page:2 |archivedate=2 July 2012 }}</ref><ref name="Cornforths">{{cite web |url=http://sydney.edu.au/science/chemistry/aboutus/history_articles/history_thecornforths.html |title=History – Chemistry – The Cornforths |website=The University of Sydney |access-date=17 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203134418/http://sydney.edu.au/science/chemistry/aboutus/history_articles/history_thecornforths.html |archive-date=3 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ed era un illustre studentessa accademica<ref name="UniSyd" /><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19311215&id=3etUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4pEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2020,5303520 |title=St. George Girls' High School |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=15 December 1931}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16953707 |title=Bursaries: tenable at university |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=17 February 1933}}</ref> che aveva ottenuto il primo posto in Chimica nel New South Wales Leaving Certificate Examination.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencearchive.org.au/fellows/memoirs/birch.html |title=Biographical memoirs: Arthur Birch |website=Australian Academy of Science |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321094415/http://www.sciencearchive.org.au/fellows/memoirs/birch.html |archivedate=21 March 2014 }}</ref>
Nel 1939, Cornforth e Harradence, indipendentemente l'uno dall'altra, vinsero ciascuno una delle due borse di ricerca scientifica (la 1851 Research Fellowship) della Royal Commission for the Exhibition del 1851, ottenibile all'estero per due anni.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://alumni.royalcommission1851.org/page/history |title=Award History |website=[[1851 Research Fellowship]] |access-date=2 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203020120/http://alumni.royalcommission1851.org/page/history |archive-date=3 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> All'Università di Oxford, Harradence era membro del [[Somerville College]], mentre Cornforth era al St. Catherine's College<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/node/584 |title=Sir John Cornforth 1917–2013 |website=St Catherine's College, Oxford |access-date=13 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014210232/https://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/node/584 |archive-date=14 October 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> e lavorarono con Sir [[Robert Robinson (chimico)|Robert Robinson]], con il quale avrebbero collaborato per 14 anni.<ref name="UniSyd" /> Nel 1941, Cornforth e Harradence si diplomarono entrambi con un D. Phil. in Chimica organica.<ref name=phd>{{cite thesis |degree=DPhil |first=John Warcup |last=Cornforth |title=Synthesis of analogues of steroid hormones |publisher=University of Oxford |year=1941 |url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:oxfaleph020276672}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alumni.sydney.edu.au/s/965/images/editor_documents/alumni-associations/USUKAA/usukaa_newsletter_winter-09.pdf |title=Winter 2009 Alumni Newsletter |publisher=The University of Sydney United Kingdom Alumni Association |date=Winter 2009}}</ref> All'epoca non esistevano istituzioni o strutture in cui un dottorato in chimica potesse essere svolto in Australia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sussex.ac.uk/internal/bulletin/staff/2013-14/201213/johncornforth |title=Obituary: Professor Sir John Cornforth |website=University of Sussex |date=20 December 2013}}</ref>
== Vita privata ==
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