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Arthur Kornberg

1918 - 2007

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Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" together with Spanish biochemist and physician Severo Ochoa of New York University. He was also awarded the Paul-Lewis Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1951, an L.H.D. degree from Yeshiva University in 1962, and the National Medal of Science in 1979. In 1991, Kornberg received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement and the Gairdner Foundation Award in 1995. Kornberg's primary research interests were in biochemistry, especially enzyme chemistry, deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis (DNA replication) and studying the nucleic acids which control heredity in animals, plants, bacteria and viruses. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Kornberg is the 199th most popular chemist (down from 148th in 2019), the 1,051st most popular biography from United States (down from 962nd in 2019) and the 47th most popular American Chemist.

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Among chemists, Arthur Kornberg ranks 199 out of 602. Before him are Julius Axelrod, Johann Deisenhofer, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Henry Taube, Paul L. Modrich, and Clara Immerwahr. After him are Herbert C. Brown, Wallace Carothers, Donald J. Cram, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Robert H. Grubbs, and Robert F. Furchgott.

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Among people born in 1918, Arthur Kornberg ranks 37. Before him are Gunnar Sønsteby, Derek Barton, Frederick Reines, Muriel Spark, Chaim Herzog, and Rosalia Lombardo. After him are Choi Hong Hi, Franco Modigliani, Julian Schwinger, Mike Wallace, João Goulart, and James Tobin. Among people deceased in 2007, Arthur Kornberg ranks 31. Before him are Gian Carlo Menotti, István Sándorfi, Barry Nelson, Jerry Falwell, Deborah Kerr, and Jean-Pierre Cassel. After him are Paul Tibbets, Nils Liedholm, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Ryszard Kapuściński, Abdul Rahman Arif, and Alan MacDiarmid.

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Among people born in United States, Arthur Kornberg ranks 1,051 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Koch (1935), Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868), Charlie Sheen (1965), Jesse Livermore (1877), Little Richard (1932), and William T. G. Morton (1819). After him are Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903), Douglass North (1920), René Auberjonois (1940), Chester Bennington (1976), Gertrude Ederle (1905), and David Bohm (1992).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Arthur Kornberg ranks 47. Before him are Alan J. Heeger (1936), Robert Curl (1933), Thomas A. Steitz (1940), Richard R. Schrock (1945), Julius Axelrod (1912), and Paul L. Modrich (1946). After him are Wallace Carothers (1896), Donald J. Cram (1919), Robert H. Grubbs (1942), Robert F. Furchgott (1916), Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), and Paul Lauterbur (1929).

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