Sir John Warcup Cornforth

Cornforth's teachers encouraged (MP4) him to choose a career that he could be good at even though he was deaf. Cornforth studied a lot by himself. He read books and practiced experiments (MP4) at home. He even had his own laboratory (MP4) at home.

He went to Sydney University. He graduated (MP4) with a Bachelor's degree in chemistry (MP4). He also graduated with honors! He was awarded a scholarship (MP4) for his doctorate degree in England at Oxford University. Only two scholarships were given. He eventually married Rita Harradence. She was awarded the other scholarship.

He received his doctorate degree in 1941. After that he worked at the Mill Hill Research Laboratories of Britain's Medical Research Council. While he worked here he studied steroids. After that he was the director of the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology. He studied cholesterol (MP4) there.

He was a professor at the University of Warwick for a few years.  He left Warwick to be a professor at the University of Sussex.

Cornforth liked to communicate through writing. He could read lips, but was not very good at reading stranger's lips. He never used interpreters or note-takers. He liked to read and write. He published (MP4) hundreds of articles instead of giving lectures (MP3).

Cornforth became a knight in 1977. He became a Commander of the British Empire. In 1975 Cornforth won the Nobel Prize. He won this because he studied cholesterol.