Roger d kornberg biography

American biochemist and professor of structural biology

Roger David Kornberg (born April 24,^[3] 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 eukaryotictranscription."^{[4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Early life and education

Kornberg was born in St.

Louis, Missouri, into a Jewish family,^[10] the eldest son of biochemist Arthur Kornberg, who won the Nobel Prize, and Sylvy Kornberg who was also a biochemist. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Harvard University in 1967 and his Ph.D.

in chemical physics from Stanford in 1972 supervised by Harden M. McConnell.^[1]

Career

Kornberg became a postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory of