Arthur Kornberg
1918 - 2007
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Biography
Arthur Kornberg was an American biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 for his discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). He was born in 1918 in New York City and completed his medical studies at the University of Rochester. Kornberg made significant contributions to our understanding of DNA replication, which laid the foundation for further research in molecular biology and genetics. He served as a professor at Stanford University and continued his groundbreaking work in biochemistry until his passing in 2007.
Famous Quotes (5)
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Science is not a democracy that can be voted by scientists nor can climate be negotiated. Nature has the last word.
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The objective facts come first, first to be discovered and then to be understood.
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Discovery is what happens when you are working on something else.
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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.