Roger D. Kornberg

Roger Kornberg
ForMemRS[3]
Kornberg in 2016
Born (1947-04-24) April 24, 1947 (age 77)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Alma mater
Known forTransmission of genetic information from DNA to RNA
SpouseYahli Lorch
Children3[citation needed]
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsStructural biology
Institutions
ThesisThe Diffusion of Phospholipids in Membranes (1972)
Doctoral advisorHarden M. McConnell[2]
Websitekornberg.stanford.edu
Signature

Roger David Kornberg (born April 24,[4] 1947) is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA, "the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription."[5][6][7][8][9][10]

  1. ^ "Roger D. Kornberg". people.embo.org.
  2. ^ Kornberg, Roger David (1972). The Diffusion of Phospholipids in Membranes (PhD thesis). Stanford University. OCLC 38611465. ProQuest 302673759.
  3. ^ Anon (2009). "Certificate of Election EC/2009/48: Roger D. Kornberg". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2017-03-21.
  4. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  5. ^ "Roger Kornberg wins the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry". Stanford University School of Medicine.
  6. ^ "Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006". Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
  7. ^ N, Kresge; Al., Et (2009). "The Decade-long Pursuit of a Reconstituted Yeast Transcription System: the Work of Roger D. Kornberg". J Biol Chem. 284 (43): e18-20. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(20)38209-0. PMC 2785628. PMID 19847957.
  8. ^ BBC News report of Kornberg's Nobel Prize win
  9. ^ Kornberg Nobel Prize lecture
  10. ^ The Nobel Foundation 2006 prizes in Chemistry