The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006
Awarded on: 2006-10-04
"for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription"
Affiliations:
- Stanford University – Stanford, CA, USA
Roger D. Kornberg
Born: 1947-04-24 in St. Louis, MO, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biochemist and professor of structural biology
Biography
Roger David Kornberg 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."