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Arthur Kornberg was born on March 3, 1918, and died on October 26, 2007. He was a recipient of the Nobel Prize, with a recorded count of one award.
His work is recognized in several specific collections. These include the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the National Medal Of Science collection.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1959
“for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Arthur
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Stanford
- Occupation
- chemist
- Employer
- Stanford University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Carl Ferdinand Cori
- Doctoral student
- Julius Adler
- Field of work
- biochemistry
- Image
- Arthur Kornberg 1969 B.jpg
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- member of
- Japan Academy
- Commons category
- Arthur Kornberg
- date of birth
- 1918-03-03
- date of death
- 2007-10-26
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- name in native language
- Arthur Kornberg
- interested in
- biochemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 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. He was also awarded the Paul-Lewis Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1951, an L.H.D. degree from Yeshiva University in 1962, and the National Medal of Science in 1979. In 1991, Kornberg received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement and the Gairdner Foundation Award in 1995.
Kornberg's primary research interests were in biochemistry, especially enzyme chemistry, deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis (DNA replication) and studying the nucleic acids which control heredity in animals, plants, bacteria and viruses.
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