Google Doodle honours Australia's only Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
Google's new Doodle may look like a bunch of items you'd find in your high school science class, but all those cartoon beakers are in celebration of Sir John Cornforth, Australia's only Nobel Prize-winner in chemistry.
Cornforth died just four years ago, just one year after his wife, scientist Rita Cornforth, passed away. The Doodle celebrates what would have been his 100th birthday.
Cornforth gained his Nobel Prize in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions — not the easiest work to break down in layman's terms, but suffice to say rather important in the world of drug discovery. Read more...
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Google Doodle honours Australia's only Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
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