Date and Place of Birth March 3, 1918, Brooklyn, New York   Education   1937 B.S., City College of New York 1941 M.D., University of Rochester   Professional Background 1941-1942 Intern, Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester 1942-1953 Commissioned Officer, U.S. Public Health Service 1947-1953 Chief of Enzyme and Metabolism Section of National Institute of…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1959 Enzymatic Synthesis of Ribonucleic Acid Pdf 257 kB

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Interview transcript Arthur Kornberg, welcome back to Stockholm again, another family get-together in Stockholm. You were here with your son when you received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 and now you’re back to see him receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year, the sixth father/son team to…

Severo Ochoa’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1959 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I cannot find adequate words to express the depth of my appreciation of the great honor which has been made me, the highest honor that a scientist can receive, and I am very…

Philip Noel-Baker’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1959 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Mr. Chairman, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: How can I fulfill what must always be the first duty of every man or woman who stands where I stand now? Perhaps…

English Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1959 The Poet and the Politician “The night is long that never finds the day”. These are Shakespeare’s words in Macbeth, and they help us to define the poet’s condition. At first, the reader appears to the poet in his solitude as an image with the face and the gestures…

Italian Lettura Nobel, Dicembre 11, 1959 Il poeta e il politico “Lunga è la notte che non trova mai giorno”: sono parole di Shakespeare nel Macbeth e ci aiutano a determinare una condizione del poeta, al quale in un primo tempo il lettore appare da un’immagine della sua solitudine con volto e gesti del compagno…

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