Roger D. Kornberg

Roger Kornberg ForMemRS[3]
Kornberg in 2016
Born	(1947-04-24) April 24, 1947 (age 77) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University (BS) Stanford University (PhD)
Known for	Transmission of genetic information from DNA to RNA
Spouse	Yahli Lorch
Children	3[citation needed]
Awards	EMBO Member (2003)[1] Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2006) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2006) Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize (2005) Gairdner Award (2000) Harvey Prize (1997) Ciba-Drew Award (1990)
Scientific career
Fields	Structural biology
Institutions	Stanford University Harvard Medical School Hebrew University of Jerusalem Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Thesis	The Diffusion of Phospholipids in Membranes (1972)
Doctoral advisor	Harden M. McConnell[2]
Website	kornberg.stanford.edu
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Roger David Kornberg (born April 24,^[4] 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."^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]}