1950's Science and Technology | "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...