Sir Walter Norman Haworth (1883-1950) was a British chemist best known for his work on the structure of ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, carried out at the University of Birmingham. He shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with the Swiss chemist Paul Karrer, whose own share of the prize recognized his research on other vitamins.
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Sir Walter Norman Haworth FRS (19 March 1883-19 March 1950) was a British chemist best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid (vitamin C) while working at the University of Birmingham.
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He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1928. He was knighted in the
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