Hans Kornberg
Sir Hans Kornberg | |
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Born | Hans Leo Kornberg 14 January 1928 |
Died | 16 December 2019 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 91)
Nationality | German |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Alma mater | University of Sheffield |
Relatives | Susanna Cork (granddaughter) Benedict Cork (grandson) |
Awards |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemistry |
Institutions |
Sir Hans Leo Kornberg,
Early life and education
Kornberg was born in 1928 in
On leaving school he became a junior laboratory technician for
Career
After receiving
In 1960, he was appointed to the first Chair in Biochemistry at the University of Leicester, which he held until 1975.[10] Later, he was elected as Sir William Dunn Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. Hans became a lecturer at Worcester College between 1958 and 1961, and was also the first person to receive The Biochemical Society's annual Colworth Medal on 1963.[11]
He received Christ's Fellowship in 1975 and was elected as the 34th Master of the Christ's College, Cambridge from 1982 to 1995. In 1995, he retired to take up a position as a Professor of Biology at Boston University, USA, where he taught biochemistry.[12]
Honours and awards
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He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1965 and the same year awarded the Colworth Medal of The Biochemical Society.[11] In 1973, he was awarded the Otto Warburg Medal of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. In the 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours List he was knighted for "services to science". He has been awarded 11 honorary doctorates and has been elected into membership of:
- The United States National Academy of Sciences
- The German Academy of Sciences "Leopoldina"
- The Italian National Academy of Sciences "Lincei"
- The American Philosophical Society
- The American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- The American Society of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Biology
- The Japanese Biochemical Society
- Phi Beta Kappa Society
and Honorary Fellowship of
- The Biochemical Society (UK)
- The Royal Society of Biology
- Brasenose College (Oxford)
- Worcester College (Oxford)
- Wolfson College (Cambridge)
- The Foulkes Foundation (London)[4]
Personal life
While at Oxford, he met and married his first wife, Monica King, in 1956 and had four children: Julia, Rachel, Jonathan and Simon. The children were raised Catholic. Monica died in 1989. In 1991, he married a Jewish woman, Donna Haber.[9] Sir Hans Kornberg died on 16 December 2019.[9][2]
References
- PMID 5337756.
- ^ a b Obituaries, Telegraph (18 December 2019). "Professor Sir Hans Kornberg, German-born biochemist and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge who did pioneering research into how bacteria work – obituary". The Telegraph.
- ^ PMID 12556462.
- ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae: Sir Hans Kornberg" (PDF). The Academy of Europe. 2015.
- ^ Offord, Catherine (27 January 2020). "Biochemist Hans Kornberg Dies". The Scientist Magazine®. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
- ^ a b Evan, Gerard (10 January 2020). "The passing of Professor Sir Hans Leo Kornberg". bioc.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
- S2CID 40858130.
- ISBN 978-3-540-02189-6.
- ^ ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
- ^ "Lectures by former students commemorate Department of Biochemistry's golden anniversary — University of Leicester". www2.le.ac.uk. 20 June 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
- ^ a b "The passing of Professor Sir Hans Kornberg | Worcester College". worc.ox.ac.uk. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
- ^ "Sad News: Professor Sir Hans Kornberg FRS". christs.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
External links
- British Humanist Society Distinguished Supporters
- Jewish Year Book, 2005, p. 214: List of Jewish Fellows of the Royal Society
- Professor Sir Hans Kornberg FRS in Conversation with Sir James Baddiley FRS October 1990
- Current research interests (Boston University Biology Department)
- Sir Hans Kornberg (Boston University Biology Department)