Thomas B. Kornberg

Chemist, Academic

1948 –

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Who is Thomas B. Kornberg?

Thomas Bill Kornberg is an American biochemist who was the first person to purify and characterise DNA polymerase II and DNA polymerase III. He is currently a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, and is working on Drosophila melanogaster development.

Kornberg's father is Arthur Kornberg, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Medicine, and his older brother is Roger D. Kornberg, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Born
1948
St. Louis
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  • Thomas Kornberg
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  • United States of America
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on July 23, 2013

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