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Arthur Kornberg
Arthur Kornberg 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…
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science · American biochemist (1918–2007) · physician · biochemist · university teacher · non-fiction writer · chemist · also Arthur Kornberg, Kornberg
Born 3 March 1918 · Died 26 October 2007 · Q295678
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2018· 1 entry
2017· 1 entry
The Scientist: Biochemist Arthur Kornberg: A Lifelong Love Affair With Enzymes
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2012· 1 entry
C&EN: Arthur Kornberg Dies At 89
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2007· 4 entries
Reuters: Arthur Kornberg, 1959 Nobel DNA winner, dies at 89
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SFGate: Nobel winner Arthur Kornberg dies at 89
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At Stanford Hospital from respiratory failure
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Died 2007-10-26.
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1998· 1 entry
In December 1998 Arthur Kornberg married Carolyn Frey Dixon.
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1997).
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Arthur Kornberg (referring to Josh Lederberg) said: "Lederberg really wanted to join my department
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1995).
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1991· 1 entry
Kornberg received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement and the Gairdner Foundation Award in 1995
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1988· 2 entries
But his second wife, the former Charlene Walsh Levering, died in 1995
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Arthur Kornberg remarried in 1988 but his second wife, the former Charlene Walsh Levering, died in 1995.
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1983· 1 entry
Won Sir Hans Krebs Medal (1983).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (1981).
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1979· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1979).
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1970).
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And is now a professor at the University of California, San Francisco
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded AMA Scientific Achievement Award (1968).
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1962· 1 entry
And the National Medal of Science in 1979
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1960· 1 entry
Was elected to the American Philosophical Society, received a LL
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1959· 4 entries
The Biologic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1959).
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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
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1956· 1 entry
Isolated the first DNA polymerizing enzyme, now known as DNA polymerase I
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1953· 1 entry
Became professor and head of the department of microbiology, Washington University in St
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry (1951).
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1946· 1 entry
And took summer courses at Columbia University to fill out the gaps in his knowledge of organic and physical chemistry while learning the techniques of enzyme purification at work
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1943· 1 entry
Kornberg married Sylvy Ruth Levy, also a biochemist of note
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1937· 1 entry
Followed by a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Rochester in 1941
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1918· 1 entry
Born 1918-03-03.
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