Arthur Kornberg M.D.
Arthur Kornberg M.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959
Nobel co-recipient Servero Ochoa
National Medal of Science – Biological Sciences 1979
Name: Arthur Kornberg
Title: Professor and Head, Department of Biochemistry
Affiliation: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Gender: Male
Year Deceased: 26 October 2007, Stanford, CA, USA
Award Discipline: Biological Sciences
Award Year: 1979
Citation: “For accomplishments providing the conceptual and experimental framework for much of our current understanding of the manner in which DNA, the genetic substance is replicated.” Presented by President Carter at a White House Ceremony on January 14, 1980.
Nobel Laureate: Physiology or Medicine 1959
Birth: 3 March 1918, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Age Awarded: 61
Country of Birth: USA
Key Contributions: Research in DNA Replication
Awarded by: Jimmy Carter
Education: City College of New York
University of Rochester
Areas of Impact: Health & Medicine
Affiliations: Stanford University School of Medicine
Other Prizes: Nobel Prize
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Kornberg, Arthur. Germ Stories. New York: University Science Books, 2007.
Kornberg, Arthur. The Golden Helix: Inside Biotech Ventures. Sausalito, CA: University Science Books, 1995.
Kornberg, Arthur, and Tania A. Baker. DNA Replication. 2nd ed. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1992.
Kornberg, Arthur. Genetic Chemistry and the Future of Medicine. San Diego: University of San Diego Press, 1990.
Kornberg, Arthur. For the Love of Enzymes: The Odyssey of a Biochemist. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Kornberg, Arthur. DNA Replication. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1980.
Kornberg, Arthur. DNA Synthesis. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1974.
Kornberg, Arthur. Enzymatic Synthesis of DNA. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 1961.
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