He received the 1937Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C". The prize was shared with Swiss chemist Paul Karrer for his work on other vitamins.
He decided to attend university and study chemistry after working for some time in a linoleum factory run by his father. He made this decision in spite of the strong disapproval of his parents.
In 1934, working with British chemist Sir Edmund Hirst, he was able to synthesize vitamin C, in fact the first ever synthesized.
The Haworth projection, a simple way for representing chemical structures in three dimensions, is named after him.
He died on March 19, 1950, which was his 67th birthday, two years after being knighted.
External link
Walter Haworth's biography at the Nobel Prize Web Site (http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1937/haworth-bio.html)
Haworth was appointed Professor and Director of the Department of Chemistry in the University of Birmingham in 1925 and he remained in this position until his retirement in 1948, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Science and acting as Vice-Principal during 1947-1948.
Haworth's early researches, initially with Perkin, involved investigations on the constitution of terpenes and in 1912 he synthesized sylvestrene.
Haworth was President of the Chemical Society (1944-1946), and Fellow (1928), and Vice-President (1947-1948) of the Royal Society.
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