Norman Haworth
1883 – 1950 · aged 67
British chemist (1883-1950)
- Born
- 19 Mar 1883 · Chorley
- Died
- 19 Mar 1950 · Barnt Green
Life timeline
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- 19 Mar 1883BornBorn in Chorley
- 1910Award1851 Research Fellowship
- 1911 – 1912RoleUniversity demonstrator
- 1912 – 1920RoleUniversity teacher
- 1920 – 1925RoleProfessor
- 1925 – 1948RoleProfessor
- 1928AwardFellow of the Royal Society
- 1933AwardLongstaff Prize
- 1934AwardDavy Medal
- 1937AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1942AwardRoyal Medal
- 1944 – 1946RolePresident
- 1944AwardRoyal Society Bakerian Medal
- 1947AwardHonorary doctor of Queen's University Belfast
- 1947AwardKnight Bachelor
- 1947 – 1948RoleVice president
- 1947 – 1948RoleVice-chancellor
- 19 Mar 1950DiedDied in Barnt Green
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Major world events during their lifetime (1883 – 1950).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
Biography
Sir Walter Norman Haworth FRS (19 March 1883 – 19 March 1950) was a British chemist best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid (vitamin C) while working at the University of Birmingham. He received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C". The prize was shared with Swiss chemist Paul Karrer for his work on other vitamins.
Haworth worked out the correct structure of a number of sugars, and is known among organic chemists for his development of the Haworth projection that translates three-dimensional sugar structures into convenient two-dimensional graphical form.
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