Quote of the day
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
John Cornforth

Born: September 7, 1917
Died: December 8, 2013 (aged 96)
Bio: Sir John Warcup "Kappa" Cornforth, Jr., AC, CBE, FRS, FAA, 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.







