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SC0359
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Call Number: SC0359
Creator:
Kornberg, Arthur, 1918-2007
Title: Arthur Kornberg papers
Dates: 1938-1987
Physical Description:
52 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
Stanford University. Libraries & Academic Information Resources.
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Custodial History
Gift of Arthur Kornberg 1989
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[Identification of item], Arthur Kornberg Papers (SC0359). Stanford University
Archives, Stanford, Calif.
Biochemistry professor at Stanford University since 1959, Kornberg's work focused on
enzymatic studies of DNA replication. Kornberg was Chief of Enzymes and Metabolics
at the National Institute of Health from 1947 to 1953, Chief of the Department of
Microbiology at the Washington University School of Medicine from 1953 to 1959, and
Chairman of Stanford's Department of Biochemistry from 1959 to 1969. In 1959,
Kornberg received a Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for pioneering the
synthesis of DNA in the laboratory.
Collection documents Kornberg's work concerning the synthesis of DNA in the
laboratory, as well as the synthetic pathways of nucleotides, and includes
correspondence, 1947 to 1982; research lab notebooks, 1947 to 1969 (which include
those studies for which he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959);
coursework, lectures, and seminars; Stanford University Departmental records;
records concerning professional organizations; and reprints, glass research slides,
and audiotapes.
Stanford University. School of Medicine. Dept. of
Biochemistry--Faculty.
DNA--Synthesis.
Nobel Prize winners
Nobel prize--Stanford faculty--biochemistry