The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Arthur Kornberg
Title:
Professor and Head, Department of Biochemistry
Affiliation:
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto,California USA
Gender:
Male
Year Deceased:
2007
Award Discipline:
Biological Sciences
Award Year:
1979
Citation:
"For accomplishments providing the conceptual and experimental framework for much of our current understanding of the manner in which DNA, the genetic substance, is replicated."
Presented by President Carter at a White House Ceremony on January 14, 1980.
Nobel Laureate:
Physiology or Medicine, 1959