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    Sir Walter Norman Haworth was a British organic chemist born in 1883 who made significant contributions to carbohydrate chemistry. He received his doctorate in 1910 and became a professor at the University of Birmingham in 1925 until retiring in 1948. Haworth received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C. One of his most important achievements was the artificial synthesis of ascorbic acid in 1934. He also developed Haworth projections, a way of depicting the cyclic structures of monosaccharides.

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    Sir Walter Norman Haworth was a British organic chemist born in 1883 who made significant contributions to carbohydrate chemistry. He received his doctorate in 1910 and became a professor at the University of Birmingham in 1925 until retiring in 1948. Haworth received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C. One of his most important achievements was the artificial synthesis of ascorbic acid in 1934. He also developed Haworth projections, a way of depicting the cyclic structures of monosaccharides.

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    Sir Walter Norman Haworth was a British organic chemist born in 1883 who made significant contributions to carbohydrate chemistry. He received his doctorate in 1910 and became a professor at the University of Birmingham in 1925 until retiring in 1948. Haworth received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C. One of his most important achievements was the artificial synthesis of ascorbic acid in 1934. He also developed Haworth projections, a way of depicting the cyclic structures of monosaccharides.

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    Sir Walter N.

    Haworth
    Biography and Contributions

    Sir Walter Norman Haworth


    BIOGRAPHY Birth date: 19 March 1883

    Birthplace:
    Family:

    Chorley, United Kingdom


    Violet Chilton (wife); had 2 sons

    EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND attended local school until age 14 and a private institution in Priston graduated first honour in 1906 became a scholar at Wallachs laboratory in Gottingen after 3 years research

    received his doctors degree in 1910 and awarded his Doctor of Science Degree in 1911 professor and director of the Dept. of Chemistry in University of Birmingham in 1925, until his retirement in 1948

    Field: Organic Chemistry, Natural Products Chemistry

    RECOGNITION AND AWARDS honorary Doctor of Law at University of Manchester received honorary science degrees: Universities of Belfast, Zurich and Oslo Recipient of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C

    1933: Longstaff Medallist (Chemical Society) 1934: Davy Medallist (Royal Society)
    1942: Royal Medallist Death: 19 March 1950 Place of Death: Birmingham, United Kingdom

    RESEARCH and CONTRIBUTIONS


    artificial synthesis of ascorbic acid in 1934, his biggest contribution to biochemistry

    wrote numerous scientific papers and contributed to Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry.

    His book The Constitution of Sugars was published in 1929.

    HAWORTH PROJECTION

    a way to view furanose and pyranose forms of monosaccharides five or six-membered cyclic hemiacetal (furanose or pyranose respectively) is represented as a planar pentagon or hexagon

    Furanose: a five-membered cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide Pyranose: a six-membered cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide
    Anomers: monosaccharides that differ in configuration only at their anomeric carbons (C1) Anomeric carbon: hemiacetal carbon of the cyclic form of a monosaccharide

    A Haworth projection of the structure for

    -D-glucopyranose

    -D-glucopyranose

    H
    H

    PROJECT IN CHEMISTRY

    SIR WALTER N. HAWORTH


    Submitted By: MORA, Lira Virginia B. CASILAG, Mark Joseph R. III-Narra

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