Arthur Kornberg

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. His 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. Quotes Implicit in the devotion to purifying enzymes, is the faith of a dedicated biochemist of being able to reconstitute in a test tube anything a cell can do. Deutscher M.P. Guide to Protein Purification Academic Press Methods in enzymology 1990 978-0-12-182083-1 https://books.google.com/books?id=zTiRJHpKIQoC&pg=PR11 2023-08-04 2 These scientists, once young and eager, had become gnomes grappling hopelessly with problems far beyond their reach. Arthur Kornberg, on his pre-1968 perception of pharmaceutical scientists. Kornberg Arthur The Golden Helix: Inside Biotech Ventures University Science Books Sausalito, Calif 1995-08-04 0-935702-32-6 26 External links Category:2007 deaths Category:Biochemists Category:Chemists from the United States Category:Nobel laureates from the United States Category:Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine Category:1918 births Category:Jews from the United States Category:Stanford University faculty Category:Columbia University faculty Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society Category:People from California Category:New York University alumni