Jon cornforth photography biography

 Last Updated: 22 Jan, By Nidhi Singh

Usually, we give credit for the popularity of every successful individual to his skills but thank God I chose to write the introduction of this blog after completing rest of its part because it has opened my eyes to details that I saw in an imperceptible light. There is indeed so much more than skills that make one successful and popular in a particular field and those are the instincts of perseverance, courage to let go a comfortable life, not giving into failures and incessant experiments and introspections. Truly, each wildlife photographer in this blog has something so specific and inspirational on offer leaving me with goosebumps while writing most part of this write-up. Some of them have been chased by bears, some bitten by snake/other deadly animals, and some, well, spent months and months in freezing cold/scorching deserts to get that perfect shot that made them a legend. Indeed, the

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John Cornforth

Australian-British chemist (–)

For other people named John Cornforth, see John Cornforth (disambiguation).

Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr.,^[3]AC, CBE, FRS, FAA (7 September – 8 December ) was an Australian–British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions,^[4][5] becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales.^[2][6][7]

Cornforth investigated enzymes that catalyse changes in organic compounds, the substrates, by taking the place of hydrogen atoms in a substrate's chains and rings. In his syntheses and descriptions of the structure of various terpenes, olefins, and steroids, Cornforth determined specifically which cluster of hydrogen atoms in a substrate were replaced by an enzyme to effect a given change in the substrate, allowing him to detail the biosynthesis of cholesterol.^[8] For this wo