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Roger Kornberg
born 1947 · United States · Born 1940 or later
Nobel Chemistry 2006
American structural biologist who revealed the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription; son of Nobel laureate Arthur Kornberg.
Nobel-winning work
He determined, by X-ray crystallography, the detailed structure of the RNA polymerase II transcription machinery and its nucleosome complex, revealing how eukaryotic DNA is read and copied into messenger RNA.