| RefNo | EC/1953/06 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVI, 66; A01574 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Cornforth, Sir, John Warcup: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished as an Organic Chemist of outstanding originality and exceptional experimental skill, particularly in microchemical manipulation. He was the first to attribute the correct constitution to penicillamine and to synthesise the amino-acid. After making significant contributions to the synthesis of penicillin he notably developed the chemistry of the oxazole group and made oxazole itself for the first time.
The important share he took in the total synthesis of androgenic hormones and other steroids is gratefully recognised by all his collaborators in the investigation.
Miscellaneous work on natural products and chemotherapy equally displays individual thought, invention, and superlative technical accomplishment. |
| Proposers | For personal knowledge. Robert Robinson; C R Harington; G R Clemo; W Baker; R P Linstead; I M Heilbron; J L Simonsen; H W Florey; Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin; H W Thompson; A Robertson |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA319 | Cornforth; Sir; John Warcup (1917 - 2013); chemist | 1917 - 2013 |