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Born 1947 (age 79) • St. Louis • Missouri
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2006)
Notable Family Members father Arthur Kornberg
Subjects Of Study DNA • RNA • eukaryote • transcription
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English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
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Fenn, John B.
John B. Fenn
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Irwin Rose
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John Howard Northrop
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Du Vigneaud, 1968
Vincent du Vigneaud
American biochemist
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Paul D. Boyer
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