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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."

"Kornberg" was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the eldest of three sons of biochemist Arthur Kornberg, who won the Nobel Prize, and Sylvy Ruth (Levy) who was also a biochemist. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Harvard University in 1967 and his Ph.D. in chemical physics from Stanford in 1972 supervised by Harden M. McConnell.

Kornberg became a postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England and then an Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School in 1976, before moving to his present position as Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford Medical School in 1978. His closest collaborator has been his wife, Professor Yahli Lorch.

 


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  3. "Roger Kornberg wins the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry". Stanford University School of Medicine. 
  4. "Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006". Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 
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  6. BBC News report of Kornbergs Nobel Prize win
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  8. Kornberg Nobel Prize lecture
  9. The Nobel Foundation 2006 prizes in Chemistry
  10. Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy
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  12. Kelleher, Raymond J.; Flanagan, Peter M.; Kornberg, Roger D. (1990). "A novel mediator between activator proteins and the RNA polymerase II transcription apparatus". Cell 61 (7): 1209–1215. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(90)90685-8. ISSN 0092-8674. 
  13. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006
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  15. Bushnell, D. A. (2004). "Structural Basis of Transcription: An RNA Polymerase II-TFIIB Cocrystal at 4.5 Angstroms". Science 303 (5660): 983–988. doi:10.1126/science.1090838. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 14963322. 
  16. Gnatt, A. L. (2001). "Structural Basis of Transcription: An RNA Polymerase II Elongation Complex at 3.3 A Resolution". Science 292 (5523): 1876–1882. doi:10.1126/science.1059495. ISSN 0036-8075. 
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  18. A family story about life 2006
  19. Hartl, Franz-Ulrich (2001). "Roger D. Kornberg Felix Hoppe-Seyler Lecturer 2001". Biological Chemistry 382 (8). doi:10.1515/BC.2001.139. ISSN 1431-6730. 
  20. "The 2005 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Laureate". Archived from the original on 2006-10-19. Retrieved 2006-10-04. 
  21. The Official Site of Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
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