American Decades
"The Biologic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid"
Lecture, Illustrations
By: Arthur Kornberg
Date: December 11, 1959
Source: Kornberg, Arthur. "The Biologic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid." Nobel lecture, December 11, 1959. Available online at http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1959/kornberg-lectur... ; website home page: http://www.nobel.se (accessed December 19, 2002).
About the Author: Arthur Kornberg (1918–) was born and grew up in New York City. He received his M.D. from the University of Rochester. He turned to research, becoming an expert on jaundice and the function of enzymes. He used enzymes to synthesis DNA in the laboratory, an achievement that won him the 1959 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology.
Introduction
In 1866 Austrian monk Gregor Mendel announced that particles...
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1950's Science and Technology Primary Sources
- The H Bomb
- "Should America Build the H Bomb?"
- "Streptomycin: Background, Isolation, Properties, and Utilization"
- "The Biologic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid"
- "A Production of Amino Acids Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions"
- "The Atom for Progress and Peace"
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
- Conquest of the Moon
- "Polio Vaccine Evaluation Results"
- "Transistor Technology Evokes New Physics"
- The Computer and the Brain
- The Astronomical Universe
- The Control of Fertility
- "Mutable Loci in Maize"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
