Arthur Kornberg - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1959
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Arthur Kornberg

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1959
for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid
Together with: Severo Ochoa
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
3/3/1918
place of birth
Brooklyn
date of death
10/26/2007
place of death
Stanford
Lived
89 years
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 1970
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1960
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1957
  • Japan Academy
    • start time: 3/12/2004
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
educated at
  • City College of New York
  • University of Rochester
  • Abraham Lincoln High School
  • Grossman School of Medicine
  • URochester Medicine
doctoral student
  • Randy Schekman
  • James Spudich
  • Tania A. Baker
  • Douglas Lee Brutlag
  • Julius Adler
employer
  • United States National Institutes of Health
  • Stanford University
  • Washington University in St. Louis
field of work
  • biochemistry
occupation
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • biochemist
  • non-fiction writer
  • physician
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