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(biochemist, chemist, university teacher) Roger David Kornberg is a highly respected American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his groundbreaking research on the mechanism of genetic information transfer from DNA to RNA, with a particular focus on eukaryotic transcription. Kornberg's work has greatly contributed to the field of molecular biology and has left a lasting impact on biochemistry.