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A scientist... shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is to find the truth — and then not keep it from anyone.

Arthur Kornberg

Molecular biology falters when it ignores the chemistry of the DNA blueprint — the enzymes and proteins, and their products — the integrated machinery and framework of the cell.

Arthur Kornberg

Life, after all, is only chemistry, in fact, a small example of chemistry observed on a single, mundane planet.

Arthur Kornberg

Arthur Kornberg

Arthur Kornberg

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Born: March 3, 1918

Died: October 26, 2007 (aged 89)

Bio: Arthur Kornberg was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid " together with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University.

Known for:

Germ Stories
The Golden Helix: Inside Biotech Ventures (2002)
DNA Replication (1980)
Genetic Chemistry and The Future of Medicine (1988)

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