Roger D. Kornberg's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

Roger David Kornberg (born April 24, 1947) is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. The birth-card coordinate for April 24 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2006 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2006 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Roger D. Kornberg's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Roger D. Kornberg. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

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Roger D. Kornberg in the public record

Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA, "the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription." Kornberg was born in St. Louis, Missouri, into a Jewish family, the eldest son of biochemist Arthur Kornberg, who won the Nobel Prize, and Sylvy Kornberg who was also a biochemist. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Harvard University in 1967 and his Ph.D. in chemical physics from Stanford in 1972 supervised by Harden M. McConnell. Kornberg became a postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England and then an Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School in 1976, before moving to his present position as Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford Medical School in 1978. From 2004-2026, Kornberg was the editor of the Annual Review of Biochemistry. He serves on the Board of Directors of Annual Reviews. Kornberg identified the role of RNA polymerase II and other proteins in DNA transcription, creating three-dimensional images of the protein cluster using X-ray crystallography.

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Intellectual mastery and deep expertise

Kornberg became a postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England and then an Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School in 1976, before moving to his present position as Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford Medical School in 1978.

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Also on the record

1. Kornberg and his research group have made several fundamental discoveries concerning the mechanisms and regulation of eukaryotic transcription.
2. While a graduate student working with Harden McConnell at Stanford in the late 1960s, he discovered the "flip-flop" and lateral diffusion of phospholipids in bilayer membranes.
3. Meanwhile, as a postdoctoral fellow working with Aaron Klug and Francis Crick at the MRC in the 1970s, Kornberg discovered the nucleosome as the basic protein complex packaging chromosomal DNA in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells (chromosomal DNA is often termed "chromatin" when it is bound to proteins in this manner).
4. Within the nucleosome, Kornberg found that roughly 200 bp of DNA are wrapped around an octamer of histone proteins.

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• Anthony J. Leggett — 2003 Physics
• Arthur Harden — 1929 Chemistry
• Betty Williams — 1976 Peace
• Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson — 1903 Literature
• Carl Spitteler — 1919 Literature
• Carl Wieman — 2001 Physics
• Christian Anfinsen — 1972 Chemistry
• Daniel C. Tsui — 1998 Physics
• Ernst Otto Fischer — 1973 Chemistry
• Eugenio Montale — 1975 Literature
• 28 more laureates share this card.

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