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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.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 was awarded jointly to Severo Ochoa and Arthur Kornberg "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
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.
Chief of Enzyme and Metabolism Section of National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. 1953-1959. Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. 1959-1969.
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.
Oct 26, 2007 · Arthur Kornberg The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 . Born: 3 March 1918, Brooklyn, NY, USA . Died: 26 October 2007, Stanford, CA, USA . Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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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.
