Roger D. Kornberg
American biochemist and professor of structural biology / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Born | (1947-04-24) April 24, 1947 (age 77) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
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Known for | Transmission of genetic information from DNA to RNA |
Spouse | Yahli Lorch |
Children | 3[citation needed] |
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Fields | Structural biology |
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Thesis | The Diffusion of Phospholipids in Membranes (1972) |
Doctoral advisor | Harden M. McConnell[3] |
Website | kornberg |
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