CHEMIST

Arthur Kornberg

1918 - 2007

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Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" together with Spanish biochemist and physician Severo Ochoa of New York University. He was also awarded the Paul-Lewis Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1951, an L.H.D. degree from Yeshiva University in 1962, and the National Medal of Science in 1979. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Kornberg has received more than 348,513 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Arthur Kornberg is the 148th most popular chemist (up from 175th in 2019), the 962nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,211th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Arthur Kornberg ranks 148 out of 602. Before him are Sune Bergström, John Newlands, Christian B. Anfinsen, James Dewar, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, and Jaroslav Heyrovský. After him are Ahmed Zewail, Edmond H. Fischer, Julius Axelrod, Yves Chauvin, Georg Ernst Stahl, and Johann Deisenhofer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Arthur Kornberg ranks 35. Before him are Rosalia Lombardo, Franco Modigliani, Frederick Reines, Yigal Allon, Ahmed Deedat, and Bertram Brockhouse. After him are James Tobin, Maurice Druon, Jerome Karle, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Yasuhiro Nakasone, and Julian Schwinger. Among people deceased in 2007, Arthur Kornberg ranks 29. Before him are Ernst Otto Fischer, Albert Ellis, Nils Liedholm, Abdul Rahman Arif, Richard Rorty, and Jane Wyman. After him are Ashraf Marwan, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Deborah Kerr, Ike Turner, Stanley Miller, and Momofuku Ando.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Arthur Kornberg ranks 962 out of 20,380. Before him are Condoleezza Rice (1954), Myrtle Corbin (1868), John Fante (1909), Ambrose Bierce (1842), Steve Reich (1936), and Melanie Griffith (1957). After him are Geena Davis (1956), Barbara Stanwyck (1907), Mickey Rooney (1920), Angelo Badalamenti (1937), Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), and Dashiell Hammett (1894).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Arthur Kornberg ranks 24. Before him are Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), William Howard Stein (1911), Glenn T. Seaborg (1912), Willard Libby (1908), and Christian B. Anfinsen (1916). After him are Julius Axelrod (1912), Kary Mullis (1944), Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), Jerome Karle (1918), Paul Flory (1910), and Robert F. Furchgott (1916).

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