By combining chemical, biochemical and physical techniques, it has thus become possible to investigate the nature of enzymic catalysis in a novel… — John Cornforth Chemical 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… — John Cornforth Communication 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… — John Cornforth Oxford 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… — John Cornforth Laboratory Copy Share Image
I started doing experiments - mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting - in my mother's laundry at… — John Cornforth Chemistry 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… — John Cornforth Beauty 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… — John Cornforth Collaboration 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… — John Cornforth Chemistry 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.… — John Cornforth Interest 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… — John Cornforth Foundation 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… — John Cornforth Accept Copy Share Image
Part of my childhood was spent in Sydney and part in rural New South Wales, at Armidale. — John Cornforth Childhood 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,… — John Cornforth Born 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… — John Cornforth Education Copy Share Image
