Word: kornberg
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Hauptman and Karle first met at City College of New York, from which they graduated in 1937 (the same class that spawned Arthur Kornberg, the medicine Nobelist for l959). Both of this year's winners are compulsive about science, but Hauptman, at least, squeezes out some time for such outside pursuits as creating patterns for stained glass. The difference in their temperaments is perhaps best revealed by the way each learned about his award. Hauptman, married to a schoolteacher and father of two daughters, had just finished his daily hour of swimming at a YMCA pool. Karle, whose three daughters...
...think people feel it's unfortunate and feel sorry for the people involved, but people don't make judgments," says Allan Kornberg, chairman of Duke's political science department. "If I had an undergraduate who wanted to come to Harvard, I'd say, 'Great, it's a great place...
Using laboratory skills that were unheard of a generation ago, scientists have isolated, put together and manipulated genes, and have come close to creating life itself. In 1967 Stanford University's Arthur Kornberg synthesized in a test tube a single strand of DNA that was actually able to make a duplicate of itself. Kornberg's "creation" was only a copy of a virus, a coated bit of genetic material that occupies a twilight zone between the living and inanimate. But many scientists have become convinced that they may eventually be able to create functioning, living cells...