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John Cornforth, a Common card
Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., 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.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 64
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,100
Power 135 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
John Cornforth quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the John Cornforth card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
For this work, he won the Nobel Prize in ______ in 1975 with Vladimir Prelog, and was knighted in 1977.
Answer
Chemistry. For this work, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 with Vladimir Prelog, and was knighted in 1977. From the John Cornforth article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Cyclohexane conformation. Cyclohexane conformation 17,000 · Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi 12,000 · John Cornforth 9,100 · Public rhetoric 1,400 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Cornforth investigated enzymes that catalyse structural changes in organic substrates by replacing specific hydrogen atoms within their chains and rings.
- In his syntheses and descriptions of the structure of various terpenes, olefins, and steroids, Cornforth determined precisely which hydrogen atoms were displaced by an enzyme to drive a given transformation, allowing him to detail the biosynthesis of cholesterol.
- For this work, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 with Vladimir Prelog, and was knighted in 1977.
Why it is Common
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Text : Wikipedia, John Cornforth (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown (Associated Press), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
