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Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" together with Spanish biochemist and physician Severo Ochoa of New York University.
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Arthur Kornberg was the youngest son of three boys born to Joseph and Lena (nee Katz) who married in 1904 and emigrated to Brooklyn New York in 1900 from Austrian Galicia (now part of Poland). Kornberg's father could speak at least six languages but had no formal education. He was a tailor who specialised in making cloaks. For almost 30 years Kornb...
From early on Kornberg was a high achiever and he skipped several grades at primary school. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School at the age of 15. In 1933 he began studying at the City College of New York (CCNY) and graduated four years later with a BS in chemistry and biology. Kornberg briefly considered an academic career in the field, b...
Following his internship, Kornberg served as a navy doctor on a US Coast Guard vessel in the Caribbean. This he did as part of his World War II military service. Expecting to remain on duty at sea for the duration of the war, Kornberg's career took an unexpected turn in 1942 when Robert Dyer, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in B...
Kornberg is most well known for his discovery and purification of DNA polymerase from Escherichia coli, an enzyme that he and his colleagues demonstrated was instrumental in the synthesis of DNA. Published in 1956, this work established for the first time that DNA replication was driven by an enzyme. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiolo...
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Oct 28, 2007 · Dr. Arthur Kornberg, a biochemist whose Nobel Prize-winning discovery of how DNA is assembled helped ignite the biotechnology revolution, died on Friday in Stanford, Calif. He was 89 and worked...
Oct 28, 2007 · Dr. Arthur Kornberg, the Stanford University Nobel laureate who was the first to synthesize DNA in a test tube and whose identification of the enzymes used by cells to manufacture DNA laid the...
Biographical. Arthur Kornberg was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1918 and educated in its public schools. He received his undergraduate degree in science from the City College of New York in 1937 and the M.D. degree from the University of Rochester in 1941. After a year’s internship in internal medicine, he served as a commissioned officer in ...
Oct 30, 2007 · Arthur Kornberg, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize for his work elucidating how DNA is built, died Oct. 26 at Stanford Hospital of respiratory failure. He was 89. 'Dr. Kornberg was one of the most distinguished and remarkable scientists in American medicine,' said Philip Pizzo, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Dec 5, 2007 · Arthur Kornberg was one of the greatest biochemists of the twentieth century. His career spanned more than 60 years, and such has been the impact of his work on modern biomedical science that...
