Walter Norman Haworth:
Walter Norman Haworth was a British chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
March 19, 1883 in Chorley, Lancashire
Death:
March 19, 1950 in Birmingham, England
Claim to Fame:
Haworth was a British chemist who was awarded half the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the structures of carbohydrates and vitamin C. Haworth and Edmund Hirst were the first to synthesize a vitamin when they synthesized ascorbic acid or vitamin C. He also showed how carbon atoms in sugars are linked into rings by oxygen atoms.
