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Name	Sir John Warcup Cornforth
Born	7 September, 1917 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	14 December, 2013 (aged 96)
Cultural Heritage	English Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Bishop, Peter Orlebar (friend) Birch, Arthur John (university friend) Ross, Ian Gordon (colleague)
Education *	Sydney Boys' High School (student, 1928-1932) University of Sydney (student, 1933-1936) Oxford University (student, 1939-1941)
Occupation or Descriptor *	organic chemist (1941-1985) Overseas
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1972) Australian of the Year (recipient, 1975) Nobel Prize for Chemistry (recipient, 1975) Knight Bachelor (recipient, 1977) Copley Medal (Royal Society) (recipient, 1982) Companion of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1991)
Key Organisations *	Royal Society of London (UK) (fellow, 1953-2013)

* Dates are approximate

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