By combining chemical, biochemical and physical techniques, it has thus become possible to investigate the nature of enzymic catalysis in a novel manner, complementary to the other approaches which have developed over the same period. — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
Life does depend on accurate replication of molecules, and its complexity often requires that an enzyme shall accept one molecular species or type and transform it to equally specific products. — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
By combining chemical, biochemical and physical techniques, it has thus become possible to investigate the nature of enzymic catalysis in a novel manner, complementary… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
Throughout my scientific career, my wife has been my most constant collaborator. Her experimental skill made major contributions to the work; she has eased… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
After a year of post-graduate research, I won an 1851 Exhibition scholarship to work at Oxford with Robert Robinson. Two such scholarships were awarded… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
In 1962, Popjak and I left the service of the Medical Research Council and became co-directors of the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology set… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
I started doing experiments - mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting - in my mother's laundry at home. — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
In 1967, I had formed a collaboration with Hermann Eggerer, then of Muenchen, and together, we solved the problem of the 'asymmetric methyl group'… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
The essential principles of the three-dimensional structure of organic molecules had been correctly formulated by the first Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Jacobus van't Hoff,… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
At the National Institute for Medical Research, I came into contact with biological scientists and formed collaborative projects with several of them. In particular,… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
My old friend Vlado Prelog has asked me to offer, from both of us, our thanks to the Royal Academy of Sciences and to… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
Life does depend on accurate replication of molecules, and its complexity often requires that an enzyme shall accept one molecular species or type and… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
Part of my childhood was spent in Sydney and part in rural New South Wales, at Armidale. — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
The total loss of hearing was a process that lasted more than a decade, but it was sufficiently gradual for me to attend Sydney… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
