Biochemist Arthur Kornberg has died at the age of 89. Kornberg won a Nobel prize for medicine in 1959 for his work with Severo Ochoa on the biological synthesis of DNA. His contribution to his field is detailed in a Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology piece from 2006 (subscription required).
“Dr Kornberg was one of the most distinguished and remarkable scientists in American medicine,” said Philip Pizzo, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine where he worked for many years (Stanford press release).
“Fellow scientists say in 200 years, the world will remember the name of medical researcher Dr Arthur Kornberg … the same way it does Albert Einstein and Nicolaus Copernicus,” says the Democrat and Chronicle, local paper of Rochester. Kornberg studied at the University of Rochester as an undergraduate.
Kornberg’s son Roger is also a Nobel recipient, having won the chemistry prize in 2006 (Nobel citation, Nature – subscription required).
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