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  Winner of Chemistry  
Roger David Kornberg

2007-9-17

Roger David Kornberg, an American biologist, a structural biology professor of Stanford University, was the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for his research on the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription, whose father Arthur Kornberg was also a professor of Stanford University and gained the 1959 Noble Prizes of physiology or medicine.
Achievements:it was the first time to describe the genic transcription process so detailed in Professor Kornberg's research on eukaryotic transcription, which created a possibility to understand the process of eukaryotic transcription for it makes a decisive role in medical research. Presently the technique of genic transcription has been widely used in the experiment on genic research.
"The process of genic transcription is crucial",in one statement of RSAS it was said, "if the transcription stops, the genic information cannot be transferred to every part of the body and so the living being will come to an end in several days". Kornberg was the first scientist to uncover the process of genic transcription on the basis of molecule level, which helped settle a key problem for medicine field because human beings'many diseases such as cancer,heart disease etc. are related with disorder of this process. Learning it can help us find out ways to conquer these them.

Brief introduction
In 1967 graduated from Harvard University and obtained bachelor's degree; in 1972 got his doctor's degree from Stanford University; had ever done Postdoc Research in the Molecular Biology Laboratory, British Medical Research Council at Cambridge. Before being the professor of Stanford University,had ever been a teacher in Biochemistry Department of Harvard University.
Kornberg is an academician of United States National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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