Abstract Walter Norman Haworth was the first British organic chemist to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1937) for his pioneering work on carbohydrates and vitamin C, which had a profound impact on carbohydrate chemistry. In addition to elucidating the basic molecular structure of carbohydrates such as monosaccharides, disaccharides and polysaccharides, he also found a ring structure formula which can express all kinds of sugar molecules more accurately, namely the famous “Haworth projection”.On the basis of Albert Szent-Györgyis success in extracting vitamin C, Haworth and his collaborators analyzed its molecular formula, C6H8O6, and pioneered the synthesis of vitamin C. Good at a variety of scientific thinking, excellent chemical analysis ability and chemical method innovation ability, excellent leadership and cooperation ability, and the ability to organically combine the three are the key factors of Haworth’s great scientific success.
CHEN Qiang-Qiang. Walter Norman Haworth: A Pioneer in Carbohydrate and Vitamin C Research[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Education, 2024, 45(14): 124-129.
