Academic Reading Australia’s Only Nobel Prize Winning Chemist, Sir John Cornforth, ANSWER KEY

True, False or Not Given

1. True	Cornforth was the first Australian to receive a Nobel Prize in any field……. That year he was also named as joint Australian of the Year.
2. False	At 10 he began to go deaf….. By 20 he was completely deaf
3. False	because he couldn’t hear the lectures he began reading textbooks, which in those days were mostly in German, so he taught himself
4. False	…. Rita Harradence, whom he had already met in the laboratory when she needed his help…… in 1941, Cornforth and Harradence had married,
5. Not Given	*****He worked on Florey book but there is no mention of friendship or even meeting in person
6. True	in 2006, he talked about the time, after his wife had told him the news that she had heard on the radio
7. False	Then came the Nobel Prize, which he shared with Bosnian chemist Vladimir Prelog for….

Complete Summary.

8. enzymic	There they studied the stereochemistry of enzymic reactions by means
9. honours	Over the years, the honours came.
10. Stadium or auditorium	”As for the ceremony…… It was in   this sports stadium, an enormous place….. in the darkness of the auditorium…
11. flashes	… causing the flashes of light..

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