Discoverer of DNA Polymerase Passes

Arthur Kornberg won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1959 for synthesizing DNA in the laboratory. Through his work to uncover the enzymes involved in the creation of DNA he isolated and identified both DNA polymerase and DNA ligase. These two enzymes are still used today in Biotechnology.

Kornberg's son Roger received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006.

Dr. Kornberg passed away at the age of 89.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1959/kornberg-bio.html

Al Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize!

Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for work to raise awareness about global warming.

Gore has spent the last 5 years travelling the globe and speaking out about global warming and the effects it is having on earth. Gore has been a proponent of the environment since his early days in the Senate. His oscar winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" came out in 2006 and brought the issues of global warming to a wide audience.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/12/nobel.gore/index.html