Cornforth

Cornforth

Coordinates: 54°42′10″N 1°30′56″W / 54.70288°N 1.51551°W / 54.70288; -1.51551

Cornforth
Cornforth is located in County Durham
Cornforth

 Cornforth shown within County Durham
OS grid reference NZ313343
Unitary authority County Durham
Ceremonial county County Durham
Region North East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Dialling code 01740
Police Durham
Fire County Durham and Darlington
Ambulance North East
EU Parliament North East England
UK Parliament Sedgefield
List of places: UK • England • County Durham

Cornforth is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated a short distance to the north-east of Ferryhill.

Before the middle part of the Victorian era, when coal mining was at its height in County Durham, Cornforth was in the parish of Bishop Middleham.

Thomas Hutchinson (bap. 1698, d. 1769) was a classical scholar, born in Cornforth and baptised there on 17 May 1698.

Village green and church at Cornforth

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  • Cornforth — ist der Name von Fanny Cornforth (eigentlich Sarah Cox; 1824−1906), Modell und Muse der Präraffaeliten John W. Cornforth (* 1917), australischer Chemiker und Nobelpreisträger Siehe auch: Cornforth Reagenz, systematisch Pyridiniumdichromat (PDC),… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Cornforth —   [ kɔːnfɔːθ], Sir (seit 1977) John Warcup, australisch britischer Chemiker, * Sydney 7. 9. 1917. Seit 1962 Forschungsleiter eines zur Shell Research Limited gehörenden Laboratoriums für chemische Enzymologie, seit 1971 auch Professor in Sussex.… …   Universal-Lexikon

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  • Cornforth — This name is of English locational origin from Cornforth, a town in the parish of Bishop s Middleham, Co. Durham. The name is derived from the old English pre 7th Century corn , a transposed form of cron of cran, a crane and ford a ford which is… …   Surnames reference

  • Cornforth reagent — Other names Pyridinium dichromate Identifiers …   Wikipedia

  • Cornforth-Reagenz — Strukturformel …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Cornforth, Sir John — ▪ Australian chemist born Sept. 7, 1917, Sydney, Australia       British chemist who was corecipient, with Vladimir Prelog (Prelog, Vladimir), of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his research on the stereochemistry of enzyme catalyzed… …   Universalium

  • Cornforth , Sir John Warcup — (1917–) Australian chemist Cornforth was educated at the university in his native city of Sydney and at Oxford University, where he obtained his DPhil in 1941. He spent the war in Oxford working on the structure of penicillin before joining the… …   Scientists

  • Cornforth — /kawrn feuhrth, fawrth , fohrth /, n. Sir John Warcup /wawr kup/, born 1917, British chemist, born in Australia: Nobel prize 1975. * * * …   Universalium

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