What is Roger D. Kornberg?
{{Nobelprize|Chemistry}} {{Infobox_Scientist |name = Roger D. Kornberg |image = Roger.Kornberg.JPG |caption = Roger Kornberg in 2006, at the Fairchild Auditorium, Stanford University |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|4|24}} |birth_place = [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], [[United States]] |nationality = [[United States]] |death_date = |death_place = |field = [[Molecular biology]] |work_institution = [[Stanford University]],<br /> [[Laboratory of Molecular Biology]],<br /> [[Harvard Medical School]] |alma_mater = [[Harvard University]];<br />[[Stanford University]] |doctoral_advisor = |known_for = Transmission of genetic information from [[DNA]] to [[RNA]] |prizes = [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] |religion = }} '''Roger David Kornberg''' (born {{birth date|1947|4|24}}) is an [[United States|American]] [[biochemist]] and Nobel prize winner. Kornberg got the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] in 2006 for studying [[eukaryote]] [[Transcription (genetics)|transcription]] (the copying of information from [[DNA]] to [[RNA]]).<ref>{{cite web | url = http://mednews.stanford.edu/kornberg/ | title = Roger Kornberg wins the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry | publisher = Stanford University School of Medicine | access-date = 2008-04-03 | archive-date = 2006-11-05 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061105052935/http://mednews.stanford.edu/kornberg/ | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2006/press.html | title = Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 | publisher = [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] }}</ref> Kornberg is a [[professor]] of Structural Biology at [[Stanford University]] School of Medicine. His father, [[Arthur Kornberg]], was also a professor at Stanford University, and got the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1959. == Early life == Kornberg was born in [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], [[Missouri]] to a [[Jewish]] family. He was the first of thr