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Arthur Kornberg



Kornberg, Arthur (1918– ), U.S. biochemist awarded with Severo Ochoa the 1959 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for discovering an enzyme (DNA polymerase) that could produce from a mixture of nucleotides exact replicas of DNA molecules. He thus extended Ochoa's related work.



See also: Biochemistry; Deoxyribonucleic Acid.

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