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Haw·orth  (hourth, härth)

A village of northern England west-northwest of Bradford. The Brontë sistersCharlotte, Emily, and Annelived with their father and brother in the parsonage, which now houses a library and museum devoted to family memorabilia.

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Haworth, Sir Walter Norman 1883-1950.

British biochemist. He shared a 1937 Nobel Prize for his research on carbohydrates and vitamin C.

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Haworth [ˈhaʊəθ]

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(Placename) a village in N England, in Bradford unitary authority, West Yorkshire: home of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë. Pop.: 4956 (1991)

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(Biographies / Haworth, Sir Walter Norman (1883-1950) M, British, SCIENCE: chemist) Sir Walter Norman. 1883-1950, British biochemist, who shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1937) for being the first to synthesize ascorbic acid (vitamin C)

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Haworth - English biochemist who was a pioneer in research on carbohydrates; when he synthesized vitamin C he became the first person to synthesize a vitamin artificially (1883-1950) Sir Walter Norman Haworth