Kornberg

American  

[kawrn-burg] / ˈkɔrn bɜrg /

noun

1. Arthur, 1918–2007, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.

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Kornberg Scientific  

/ kôrn′bûrg′ /

1. American biochemist who discovered DNA polymerase, the enzyme that synthesizes new DNA. For this work, he shared with Severo Ochoa the 1959 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. In 1967 Kornberg became the first person to synthesize viral DNA.

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The night before, Kornberg and Beurer cooked hamburgers on a grill outside their three-story, mud-and-hay-walled drying shed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

Jessie Kornberg, the Skirball’s chief executive, said she thought there were advantages to telling the story from outside New York.

From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2022

"Lauren Alaina represents the essence of feel good fashion for real life," Kornberg said in a statement.

From Fox News ● Jan. 19, 2022

Comtech said last month its chief executive Fred Kornberg would be succeeded by its president and chief operating officer Michael Porcelain.

From Reuters ● Nov. 1, 2021

Cell biologists look; geneticists count; biochemists clean, the scientist Arthur Kornberg once said.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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