Word: kornberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group--which also included Nobel Laureates James D. Watson, George Palade, and Arthur Kornberg--spoke to the Senate and House appropriations sub-committees...
...Arthur Kornberg, Nobel laureate and Stanford University professor of biochemistry, who made that gloomy statement in March before the House Subcommittee on Public Health and Environment, was not exaggerating. In its proposed budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, the Nixon Administration has drastically cut federal support for research projects, medical schools and hospitals. As a result, many doctors and scientists fear that American medical research-long pre-eminent in the world-could be severely hobbled and perhaps set back by as much as a decade...
...decision time neared, 19 California Nobel prizewinners (including Willard F. Libby, Glenn T. Seaborg, Harold C. Urey and Linus Pauling) wrote the board in protest. In the letter, drafted by Arthur Kornberg, professor of biochemistry at Stanford's School of Medicine, the laureates said that the concessions were unacceptable...
...Conditional statements are appropriate," the letter continued, "when multiple theories have been proposed and none of these can be eliminated by existing scientific evidence. No alternative 1 to the evolutionary theory gives an equally satisfactory explanation of the biological facts." Kornberg later said...
Ingenious as the theory was, scientists still demanded proof that the molecule actually replicated itself. That proof was quick to come. By 1956, Arthur Kornberg, then at Washington University in St. Louis, discovered an enzyme, or natural chemical catalyst (which he named "DNA polymerase") that was apparently critical to some of the activities of the double helix. Once he obtained enough of the enzyme, he placed it in a test-tube brew with a bit of natural DNA, one of whose strands was incomplete, the four bases (A, T, C, G) and a few other off-the-shelf chemicals. True...