Professor John Cornforth was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1975. Article published in the Bulletin on 28 October 1975

This week in 1975, Professor John Cornforth became the first Sussex academic to win a Nobel Prize. 

His "outstanding" work on the "stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions" led to him being named joint winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. 

Two other Sussex faculty - Professor Sir Harry Kroto in 1996 and Professor Anthony Leggatt in 2003 - would later go on to receive the accolade. 

Here is an extract from the original article in the Bulletin published Tuesday 28 October 1975:

Nobel Prize for Sussex Professor

Professor John Cornforth, Royal Society Research Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences, is the joint winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He shares the £69,000 prize with Yugoslav-born Professor Vladimir Prelog of Zurich. 

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announcing the award on October 17, said that Professor Cornforth had made "an outstanding intellectual achievement in his work" on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions. 

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Asa Briggs, who referred to the award in a public speech on the day after it was announced, described it as "among the greatest honours that are being conferred internationally", and said it was "a testimony to the University's outstanding position in molecular sciences"... 

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