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.