Roger D. Kornberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Roger D. Kornberg

American chemist

Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1947

Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Profession: chemist, university teacher, biochemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Roger David Kornberg (born April 24, 1947) 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."