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Oct 30, 2007 · KORNBERG--Arthur. The faculty, staff and students of The City College of New York mourn the passing of Dr. Arthur Kornberg, 1937, 1959 Nobel Laureate in Medicine. Dr. Kornberg was a member of...
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.
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...
- Tania A. Baker
- 2007
Oct 26, 2007 · Profile: Arthur Kornberg - the US biochemist who isolated the first DNA polymerase, an enzyme that opened up the avenue to manipulate DNA and the development of genetic engineering.
- New York City, United States
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.
Dec 9, 2005 · In the first Classic, Kornberg and his colleagues describe the purification of DNA polymerase from E. coli. In the second Classic, they report that polymerized DNA, Mg 2+, and all four deoxynucleoside triphosphates (adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine) are needed for DNA synthesis to occur.
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Jan 1, 2008 · Arthur Kornberg, a prolific researcher who described his career as a “love affair with enzymes,” discovered DNA polymerase, an enzyme critical to DNA replication. For his discovery, Kornberg shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Severo Ochoa, who discovered RNA polymerase.
