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.
- Occupation
- chemist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Born
- September 7, 1917
- Died
- December 8, 2013