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Norman Haworth


Born
in Chorley, Lancashire, England, The United Kingdom
March 19, 1883

Died
March 19, 1950

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Sir (Walter) Norman Haworth FRS. 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.

Having worked for some time from the age of fourteen in the local Ryland's linoleum factory managed by his father, he studied for and successfully pas
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The Constitution of Sugars

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