Original: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 At the same as Kornberg was pursuing these biochemical studies of the transcription process , he devoted two decades to the development of methods to visualize the atomic structure of RNA polymerase and its associated protein components .
Simplified: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 At the same as Kornberg was studying biochemistry , he used two decades trying to make microscopes that could take pictures of RNA and the proteins .