Roger D. Kornberg

Roger D. Kornberg
Roger Kornberg in 2006, at the Fairchild Auditorium, Stanford University
Born	(1947-04-24) April 24, 1947 (age 77) St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Harvard University; Stanford University
Known for	Transmission of genetic information from DNA to RNA
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Scientific career
Fields	Molecular biology
Institutions	Stanford University, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Harvard Medical School

Roger David Kornberg (born (1947-04-24)April 24, 1947) is an American biochemist and Nobel prize winner. Kornberg got the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for studying eukaryote transcription (the copying of information from DNA to RNA).^[1][2]

Kornberg is a professor of Structural Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. His father, Arthur Kornberg, was also a professor at Stanford University, and got the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959.

1. ↑ "Roger Kornberg wins the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry". Stanford University School of Medicine. Archived from the original on 2006-11-05. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
2. ↑ "Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006". Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.