Arthur Kornberg
Chemist, Academic
1918 – 2007
Who was Arthur Kornberg?
Arthur Kornberg was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid" together with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University. He was also awarded the Paul-Lewis Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1951, L.H.D. degree from Yeshiva University in 1962, as well as National Medal of Science in 1979.
His primary research interests were in biochemistry, especially enzyme chemistry, deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis and studying the nucleic acids which control heredity in animals, plants, bacteria and viruses.
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- Born
- Mar 3, 1918
New York City - Also known as
- Корнберг, Артур
- Spouses
- Charlene Walsh Levering
(1988 - 1995) - Sylvy Ruth Levy
(1943/11/21 - 1986) - Carolyn Frey Dixon
(1995 - )
- Charlene Walsh Levering
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Doctor of Medicine, University of Rochester
Medicine
( - 1941) - New York University
- Abraham Lincoln High School
( - 1937) - City College of New York
- Doctor of Medicine, University of Rochester
- Employment
- Stanford University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Lived in
- New York City
- Portola Valley
( - 2006/10/26)
- Died
- Oct 26, 2007
Stanford
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on July 23, 2013
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