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Sir Walter Norman Haworth FRS (19 March 1883 – 19 March 1950) was a British chemist best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid while working at the University of Birmingham. He received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C".
He studied lactones from sugars and co-related structure with optical rotatory powers. His method for the determination of chain length in methylated polysaccharides, an important structural problem, helped to settle the basic features of the starch, cellulose, glycogen, inulin and xylan molecules.
Sir Norman Haworth (born March 19, 1883, Chorley, Lancashire, England—died March 19, 1950, Birmingham) was a British chemist, who, along with the Swiss chemist Paul Karrer, won the 1937 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in determining the chemical structures of carbohydrates and vitamin C.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1937. Born: 19 March 1883, Chorley, United Kingdom. Died: 19 March 1950, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: Birmingham University, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C”. Prize share: 1/2.
Banquet speech. Norman Haworth’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1937. Your Royal Highnesses. My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, My first words must be those of gratitude to the Swedish Academy for the encouragement which this award has brought to me in my endeavours to advance the bounds of knowledge by my labours.
Learn about the life and achievements of Sir Norman Haworth, who made groundbreaking contributions to carbohydrate chemistry and Vitamin C. He was the first British organic chemist to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1937.
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A biog of Sir (Walter) Norman Haworth (1883–1950), the former Director of Chemistry and Dean of the Faculty of Science at Birmingham, who was awarded (jointly) the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1937.
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