Awards & Winners

Roger D. Kornberg

Date of Birth 24-April-1947
Place of Birth St. Louis
(Missouri, United States of America, Area code 314, Area code 557)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Roger David Kornberg
Profession Scientist, Chemist, Structural biology
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."

Awards by Roger D. Kornberg

Check all the awards nominated and won by Roger D. Kornberg.

2006


Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription)

2000


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For their studies on the transcription machinery and elucidation of the basic mechanisms of transcription in eukaryotic cells.)