Roger D. Kornberg

Roger Kornberg
Kornberg in 2016
Born (1947-04-24) April 24, 1947
Education
Known forTransmission of genetic information from DNA to RNA
SpouseYahli Lorch
Children3
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsStructural biology
Institutions
ThesisThe Diffusion of Phospholipids in Membranes (1972)
Doctoral advisorHarden M. McConnell
Websitekornberg.stanford.edu
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Roger David Kornberg (born April 24, 1947) is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA, "the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription."