Google Doodles | 07 September 2017
Hari Ulang Tahun Sir John Cornforth ke-100
Sir John Cornforth’s 100th Birthday
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Sir John Cornforth’s 100th Birthday
Today's Doodle celebrates chemist Sir John Warcup Cornforth, born in Sydney on this date in 1917. During childhood, Cornforth began to lose his hearing, and he was completely deaf by the age of 20. Unable to hear the lectures in his classes at the University of Sydney, he devoured chemistry textbooks on his own.
One fateful day at university, Cornforth met fellow chemist Rita Harradence. She had broken a flask in the lab and asked Cornforth — an accomplished glassblower — to repair it. Thus began a long professional and romantic partnership. In 1939, Cornforth and Harradence both won scholarships to study at Oxford, and they married two years later. Together they wrote more than 40 scientific papers. (Now that's chemistry!)
At Oxford, Conforth joined the team that made great strides in the study of penicillin. He then returned to his earlier research on the three-dimensional structure ("stereochemistry") of various chemical reactions. In 1975, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for this work. Cornforth and co-laureate Vladimir Prelog studied the enzymes that activate changes in organic compounds. Their conclusions opened the door to many discoveries, including the development of cholesterol-lowering drugs.
When the Nobel Prize was announced, the press release admitted, "This subject is difficult to explain to the layman." But it was already clear that millions of people would benefit from Cornforth's lifelong curiosity about the workings and wonder of the natural world.
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Doodle hari ini merayakan hebat kimia Sir John Warcup Cornforth, lahir di Sydney pada tanggal 1917. Selama masa kanak-kanak, Cornforth mulai kehilangan pendengarannya, dan ia benar-benar tuli pada usia 20. Tidak sanggup mendengar ceramah di kelasnya di Universitas dari Sydney, ia melahap buku teks kimia sendiri.
Suatu hari yang memilih di universitas, Cornforth bertemu dengan rekan hebat kimia Rita Harradence. Dia telah memecah labu di laboratorium dan bertanya kepada Cornforth - seorang pembuat gelas yang cakap - untuk memperbaikinya. Dengan demikian mulailah sebuah kemitraan profesional dan romantis yang panjang. Pada tahun 1939, Cornforth dan Harradence keduanya memenangkan beasiswa untuk berguru di Oxford, dan mereka menikah dua tahun kemudian. Bersama-sama mereka menulis lebih dari 40 makalah ilmiah. (Sekarang itu chemistry!)
Di Oxford, Conforth bergabung dengan tim yang menciptakan langkah besar dalam studi penisilin. Dia lalu kembali ke penelitian sebelumnya wacana struktur tiga dimensi ("stereokimia") dari aneka macam reaksi kimia. Pada tahun 1975, ia dianugerahi Hadiah Nobel untuk Kimia untuk pekerjaan ini. Cornforth dan co-laureate Vladimir Prelog mempelajari enzim yang mengaktifkan perubahan senyawa organik. Kesimpulan mereka membuka pintu bagi banyak penemuan, termasuk pengembangan obat penurun kolesterol.
Ketika Hadiah Nobel diumumkan, siaran persnya mengakui, "Subjek ini sulit untuk dijelaskan kepada orang awam." Tapi sudah terang bahwa jutaan orang akan mendapat laba dari keingintahuan Cornforth seumur hidup wacana cara kerja dan keajaiban dunia alami.
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