Nobel Laureate Dr. Arthur Kornberg Dies

AP Online | October 27, 2007 | Copyright

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, whose test-tube synthesis of DNA earned him the Nobel Prize in 1959, died of respiratory failure Friday at Stanford Hospital, the hospital said. He was 89.

Kornberg, an active professor emeritus of biochemistry at Stanford University's School of Medicine, shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University. Kornberg discovered the chemical mechanism that demonstrated how DNA - the blueprint of heredity - gets constructed in the cell.

"Dr. Kornberg was one of the most distinguished and remarkable scientists ...

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