Roger D. Kornberg
1947
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Harvard University, Stanford University
occupation: biochemist, chemist, university teacher, biologist
award received: Honorary doctorate of Umeå University, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Harvey Prize, Canada Gairdner International Award, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize, Dickson Prize in Medicine, Massry Prize, Novartis-Drew Award, Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer, Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Cancer Research, Welch Award in Chemistry, Fellow of the AACR Academy, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, EMBO Membership
Roger David Kornberg (born April 24, 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." Source: Wikipedia (en)
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