Sir John Warcup Cornforth , 1917-, Australian chemist, Ph.D. Oxford, 1941. Although Cornforth suffered a hearing loss from childhood, he was aided in communicating by his wife and co-researcher Rita Harradence. His main affiliations were with the National Institute for Medical Research in London(1946-62) and the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology for Shell Research, Ltd. (1962-75). In 1975 he and Vladimir Prelog were awarded theNobel Prize in Chemistry for their efforts to relate molecular structure to the properties of chemical compounds.