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
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