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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.
After a year’s internship in internal medicine, he served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service. He was first assigned to the Navy as a ship’s doctor, and then as a research scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1942 to 1953.
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
When ship's doctor Arthur Kornberg was reassigned to a research post at the National Institute of Health (NIH)--now the National Institutes of Health--in 1942, he did not expect to stay there beyond the end of World War II.
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
Nov 30, 2007 · Arthur Kornberg, one of the most distinguished and influential biochemists of his generation, died October 26. He was 89 years old, and until the end he remained fascinated with basic biochemical research.
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Nov 16, 2007 · Beginning with his experience in Ochoa's lab, and for the rest of his life, Arthur committed to the principle that any complex cellular process from nucleotide metabolism to chromosome replication can and must be examined with pure enzymes and substrates.
