page_title: Arthur Kornberg
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caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Arthur Kornberg in his laboratory. Kornberg joined the Public Health Service in 1942 and was assigned to the National Institute of Health, Laboratory of Chemistry to work on nutrition research. In 1948 he created an enzyme and metabolic section in the Laboratory. The Laboratory of Chemistry became the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases in 1950 and Dr. Kornberg remained at the Institute until 1953. While at NIH, Dr. Kornberg initiated a series of investigations into nucleotide biochemistry. After leaving the National Institutes of Health, Arthur Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology.
context_page_description: Arthur Kornberg was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid" together with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University. He was also awarded the Paul-Lewis Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1951, L.H.D. degree from Yeshiva University in 1962, as well as 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.
  His primary research interests were in biochemistry, especially enzyme chemistry, deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis and studying the nucleic acids which control heredity in animals, plants, bacteria and viruses.
context_section_description: Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)" together with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University. He was also awarded the Paul-Lewis Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1951, L.H.D. degree from Yeshiva University in 1962, as well as 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.
  His 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.
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