Arthur Kornberg (1918-2007)

Awarded the Prize “for the discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid deoxyribonucleic acid.”

American biochemist. Kornberg was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 3, 1918. He was educated at City College, New York, where he took his B.Sc. degree in 1937, the University of Rochester, obtaining the M.D. in 1941. He returned to City College in 1960, for LL.D., Rochester University in 1962, to take D.Sc. He was a Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service Chief of the Enzyme Metabolism Section of the National Institutes of Health of Bethesda. Then he was Professor Head of the Department in the Washington University School of Medicine Professor Executive Head of the Department at Stanford University School of Medicine. Kornberg died in Stanford, California on October 26, 2007.