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Cornforth

American  
[kawrn-ferth, -fawrth, -fohrth] / ˈkɔrn fərθ, -ˌfɔrθ, -ˌfoʊrθ /

noun

  1. Sir John Warcup 1917–2013, British chemist, born in Australia: Nobel Prize 1975.


Cornforth British  
/ ˈkɔːnˌfɔːθ /

noun

  1. Sir John Warcup. born 1917, Australian chemist, who shared the 1975 Nobel prize for chemistry with Vladimir Prelog for their work on stereochemistry

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The name Makaton comes from the names of its creators, speech and language therapists Margaret Walker, Kathy Johnston and Tony Cornforth who developed it in the 1970s.

From BBC

“Everything kind of points to a long, slow decline,” said Charles Hammond of Cornforth Consultants, the engineering firm hired by the operator of a quarry at the base of the ridge.

From Seattle Times

“Fanny Cornforth’s Mouth” opens, “On 23 July 1859, George Boyce agreed to pay Dante Gabriel Rossetti 40 pounds to paint the woman with whom they were both sleeping.”

From Washington Post

The new analysis is generally consistent with the conclusions reached by Cornforth Consultants, hired to monitor the slope by the operator of a quarry at the base of the hill.

From Seattle Times

Like Cornforth, Norrish finds little evidence that the west side of the hill is weakening and likely to collapse into the freeway and river.

From Seattle Times