Google's new Doodle may look like a bunch of items you'd find in your high school science class,Rapsa (2025) but all those cartoon beakers are in celebration of Sir John Cornforth, Australia's only Nobel Prize-winner in chemistry.
Cornforth died just four years ago, just one year after his wife, scientist Rita Cornforth, passed away. The Doodle celebrates what would have been his 100th birthday.
Cornforth gained his Nobel Prize in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions — not the easiest work to break down in layman's terms, but suffice to say rather important in the world of drug discovery.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable SEE ALSO: Google honors 'Mr. Trololo' Eduard Khil with his own lovely doodle video According to his alma mater, the University of Sydney, Cornforth went deaf early in life, using textbooks instead of lectures and relying on fellow researcher and University of Sydney chemistry alumnus Rita for assistance with lip reading and sign language. The university now awards the Rita and John Cornforth Medal for Ph. D achievement.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable “The Cornforths made a remarkable contribution to the world," says University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor and Principal Dr Michael Spence. "It was perhaps Sir John’s determination to consult primary sources, and celebrate science as an ongoing endeavour, that made his work so precise and compelling.”
Google's other recent Australian Doodles include an Australia Day special on Jan. 26, featuring World Heritage Site the Great Barrier Reef, and a Doodle to celebrate iconic Aboriginal Australian artist Albert (Elea) Namatjira’s 115th birthday on Jul. 28.
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