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Arthur Kornberg. Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)" with Severo Ochoa of New York University. [2] He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1979.
26 de oct. de 2007 · Arthur Kornberg was the youngest son of three boys born to Joseph and Lena (nee Katz) who married in 1904 and emigrated to Brooklyn New York in 1900 from Austrian Galicia (now part of Poland). Kornberg's father could speak at least six languages but had no formal education. He was a tailor who specialised in making cloaks.
Kornberg continued to serve on the board of directors and assist with recruitment. He also remained active in his laboratory research. In 1991, after many decades of work on DNA replication, he shifted his research focus to inorganic polyphosphate (poly P). He had been interested in this phosphate polymer since the 1950s, when he found an ...
From Physician to Enzyme Hunter, 1942-1953. When ship's doctor Arthur Kornberg was reassigned to a research post at the National Institute of Health (NIH)--now the National Institutes of Health--in 1942, he did not expect to stay there beyond the end of World War II. He had no formal research qualifications, apart from his small medical school ...
Arthur Kornberg, who had a life-long love affair with enzymes, died on 26 October surrounded by his family and mourned by his extended family of students and colleagues. It is not surprising that only 2 weeks before, he had been actively summariz-ing decades of work on polyphosphate for a review article. In his autobiography, For the Love of ...
Arthur Kornberg died on October 26, 2007. He was one of the most remarkable scientists of our time. His discovery of DNA polymerase I (Bessman et al. 1958; Lehman et al. 1958a) and his demonstration that it faithfully copies the base sequence of a template DNA strand (Lehman et al. 1958b) led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize immediately in 1959.
Forty years ago, a Japanese press release issued on the occasion of a visit by Arthur Kornberg called him the “father of life in a test tube.” This was in reference to his laboratory's 1967 feat of copying single-stranded circular DNA into a replicative form and then back to an infectious viral DNA strand using purified DNA polymerase and DNA ligase (Figure 1, left panel). Although a ...
