Guide to the Arthur Kornberg Papers SC0359

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1998
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Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Arthur Kornberg papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0359
Physical Description: 55 Linear Feet and 400 megabytes
Date (inclusive): 1938-2007
Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
Language of Material: English .

Access Restrictions

Search files and other personnel files are restricted. Other materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

Arrangement

The materials are arrenged in eight series: 1. Correspondence; 2. Research and Laboratory Notebooks; 3. Lectures and Seminars; 4. Professional Files; 5. Class Materials; 6. Stanford Administrative and Departmental Records; 7. Personal and Miscellaneous Papers; 8. Audiovisual materia; and three additions.

Biography

With a research career spanning more than sixty years, Arthur Kornberg made many outstanding contributions to molecular biology. He was the first to isolate DNA polymerase, the enzyme that assembles DNA from its components, and the first to synthesize DNA in a test tube, which earned him a Nobel Prize in 1959. He later became the first to replicate an infective virus DNA in vitro. He was the primary architect and first chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, which under his guidance became a preeminent center for DNA research, including recombinant DNA research. Starting in the 1980s, Kornberg also played a key role in establishing productive ties between academic science and the biotechnology industry.
Kornberg was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 3, 1918, the youngest of Joseph and Lena Kornberg's three children. Emigrants from eastern Europe, the Kornbergs owned a small hardware and home furnishings store. Arthur was "an eager and able student" and was allowed to skip grades several times in primary school. He finished high school at age 15, and entered the City College of New York in 1933. Despite this precocity, Kornberg doesn't recall having any early passion for science, or interest in the natural world as a youngster. (He collected matchbook covers rather than butterflies.) He did well in his high school and college chemistry courses, and briefly considered an academic career in the field. During the Depression years, however, medical school seemed a more promising choice. Kornberg received his MD from the University of Rochester in 1941, expecting to become "an internist with academic connections." Following his internship, he began his World War II military service as a ship's doctor on a U.S. Coast Guard vessel in the Caribbean. Though he often quarreled with the ship's captain, Kornberg expected to remain on sea duty for the duration of the war.
Kornberg's career took an unexpected turn when his first medical article was published in 1942. In medical school, Kornberg had conducted a small research study into a disorder (later known as Gilbert syndrome) characterized by excessive bilirubin in the blood and a mild benign jaundice, because he himself had the condition. At the time of publication, senior military medical officers, along with National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Rolla Dyer, were desperately seeking out new information on jaundice, due to an outbreak of jaundice induced by the new yellow fever vaccine. [To learn more about yellow fever vaccine, visit the Wilbur Sawyer Papers on Profiles in Science.] Impressed by Kornberg's study, Dyer arranged his reassignment to a research post in the Nutrition Laboratory at NIH in the fall of 1942. His first project involved tracking down a vitamin deficiency in rats induced by sulfa drugs. Studying the vitamins then known--many of which are coenzymes--Kornberg became intrigued by the central role of enzymes in all living processes, and their immense potential for illuminating the mechanisms of cells. In 1945, desiring to pursue studies of the metabolic enzymes involved in adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production, he received leave to spend a year acquiring further biochemistry training with Severo Ochoa at New York University, and six months with Carl and Gerty Cori at Washington University in St. Louis. It was then, he later recalled, that he began a lifelong love affair with enzymes, the large specialized proteins that catalyze all life processes.
Several years before, Kornberg had married the other love of his life, biochemist Sylvy Ruth Levy. They had met at the University of Rochester and became better acquainted at NIH, where Sylvy was working at the National Cancer Institute. Apart from the six years when their sons Roger, Thomas, and Kenneth were small, Sylvy worked full-time in Kornberg's laboratory throughout their long marriage. The children were often with them there outside of school hours, and two of them, Roger and Thomas, also chose careers in biochemistry. Roger Kornberg went on to receive the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
After Kornberg returned to NIH in 1947, he established an Enzyme Section within the Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, and continued research into the enzymes involved in metabolic respiration. During the next several years he became very adept at identifying and purifying enzymes, and discovered those that make several key components of metabolic respiration cycles. Encouraged by his success with these systems, he turned his attention to finding the enzyme that assembles various chemical building blocks into the nucleic acids: DNA and RNA. He began by working out the synthesis process for the individual nucleotides, units composed of a nitrogenous base (cytosine, adenine, guanine, uracil, or thymine) combined with a sugar (ribose or deoxyribose) and a phosphate group.
In 1953, Kornberg moved to St. Louis to head the Microbiology Department at Washington University School of Medicine. There he continued working on the synthesis of individual nucleotides, and by 1954 had found the enzymes needed to make all four of the nucleotide building blocks for RNA. A colleague at Washington University had meanwhile found the enzyme that makes the thymine nucleotide (which substitutes for the uracil nucleotide in DNA). Now able to make the building blocks, Kornberg and his colleagues began looking for the enzymes that would put them together into RNA or DNA.
Kornberg focused on the synthesis of DNA after learning in 1955 that Severo Ochoa and his colleagues at NYU had apparently created a synthetic RNA from adenosine diphosphate (ADP) (the product ultimately turned out to be not RNA, but a chain very like it). Working with cell extracts of E. coli bacteria and radioisotope tracers, Kornberg found which combinations of the nucleotides and other ingredients resulted in the most rapid synthesis of DNA. By the following year he had found and purified the essential enzyme, DNA polymerase, from E. coli, and was able to synthesize DNA in the lab. The results were published in 1958, and Kornberg received the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared with Severo Ochoa) for this work.
Shortly before the Nobel Prizes were announced that year, Kornberg had taken up a new position as chair of the new department of biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto. Stanford had approached him in 1957, offering the unique opportunity to organize and staff the department from the ground up. Kornberg recruited most of his Washington University faculty and staff, and a number of former postdoctoral fellows for Stanford. Retaining the communal laboratory structure and style that they developed in St. Louis, Stanford's department of biochemistry remained a highly productive, tightly-knit group focused mainly on DNA research. Nearly fifty years later, six of the original faculty--Kornberg, Robert Baldwin, Paul Berg, David Hogness, Dale Kaiser, and Robert Lehman--were still there.
In this stimulating environment, Kornberg and his colleagues continued to identify and delineate the workings of various enzymes involved in DNA replication. In 1967 they synthesized a viable virus DNA, an achievement lauded by the press (to Kornberg's dismay) as the "creation of life in a test tube." They subsequently found enzymes responsible for DNA repair and rearrangement, and others responsible for the start and elongation of DNA chains and chromosomes. The enzymes they discovered, which allowed the manipulation of DNA, helped make possible the development of recombinant DNA technology and the engineering of genes and chromosomes.
In 1991, after many decades of research on DNA replication, Kornberg switched his research focus to inorganic polyphosphate (poly P), a phosphate polymer. Poly P is found in every bacterial, plant and animal cell, but its functions were not well understood. Chemists long regarded it as a molecular fossil, a remnant from earlier evolutionary stages. Kornberg found a variety of likely functions for poly P that include regulating cell responses to stress, and factors responsible for motility and virulence in some of the major disease microorganisms.
In addition to his research and administrative duties, Kornberg also taught graduate, medical, and postdoctoral students. With his own and other Stanford departments so closely involved in the early development of recombinant DNA science, he was long interested in building connections between academic scientists and the emerging biotechnology industry. He was a founding partner of an innovative research institute (DNAX Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology) in 1980, and served on the advisory boards and councils of many university, governmental, and industrial research institutes.
Kornberg published over three hundred scientific papers during his long career, as well as major monographs on DNA replication, a scientific autobiography, an insider's account of the biotechnology industry, and most recently a children's book, titled Germ Stories, based on stories he told his children and grandchildren over the years.
Besides the 1959 Nobel Prize, Kornberg received numerous other honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1957, election to the Royal Society of London in 1970, and the National Medal of Science in 1979. He received many honorary doctorates, and in 1999 the University of Rochester dedicated the new Arthur Kornberg Medical Research Building in his honor.
Arthur Kornberg died on October 26, 2007 at the Stanford Hospital, of respiratory failure. He was carrying on his lab research until several days before his death.

Provenance

Gift of Arthur Kornberg, 1989, 2002, 2008.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item], Arthur Kornberg Papers, SC0359, Stanford University Archives, Stanford, Calif.

Scope and Contents

Collection documents Kornberg's work concerning the synthesis of DNA in the laboratory, as well as the synthetic pathways of nucleotides, and includes correspondence, 1947 to 1982; research lab notebooks, 1947 to 1969 (which include those studies for which he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959); coursework, lectures, and seminars; Stanford University Departmental records; records concerning professional organizations; and reprints, glass research slides, and audiotapes.

Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Nobel Prize winners
Nobel prize -- Stanford faculty -- Biochemistry
DNA -- Synthesis.

 

Series 1. Correspondence Series 1 1947-1987

Language of Material: English.
 

Stanford Correspondence 1957-1975

Language of Material: English.
Box 31, folder 8

Stanford Correspondence 1957

Box 31, folder 7

Stanford Correspondence 1958

Box 31, folder 9

Stanford Correspondence, Jul-Dec 1958

Box 31, folder 3

Stanford Correspondence A-Co, 1961

Box 31, folder 4

Stanford Correspondence Co-Me, 1961

Box 31, folder 5

Stanford Correspondence Me-R, 1961

Box 31, folder 6

Stanford Correspondence Sa-Y, 1961

Box 31, folder 15

Stanford Correspondence 1961-1966

Box 26, folder 13

Stanford Correspondence 1967-1968

Box 28, folder 8

Stanford Correspondence 1969-1972

Box 30, folder 2-4

Stanford Correspondence: Medical Search Committee 1972-1975

Box 30, folder 8

Library Correspondence 1958-1964

Box 31, folder 14

Library Correspondence 1960-1961

 

General Correspondence 1947-1987

Language of Material: English.
Box 15, folder 11-18

Correspondence 1947-1951

Box 16, folder 1-2

Correspondence 1951-1952

Box 24, folder 1

Correspondence 1953

Box 25, folder 5

Correspondence 1953

Box 24, folder 2

Correspondence 1954

Box 24, folder 3

Correspondence 1955

Box 24, folder 4

Correspondence 1956

Box 24, folder 5

Correspondence 1957

Box 24, folder 6

Correspondence 1958

Box 25, folder 1

Correspondence 1959

Box 23, folder 10

Correspondence 1959

Box 29, folder 1

Correspondence A-K, 1959

Box 29, folder 2

Correspondence L-Z, 1959

Box 25, folder 2

Correspondence A-F, 1960

Box 25, folder 3

Correspondence G-N, 1960

Box 25, folder 4

Correspondence O-Z, 1960

Box 32, folder 1

Correspondence 1962

Box 32, folder 2

Correspondence 1963

Box 32, folder 3

Correspondence 1964

Box 32, folder 4

Correspondence A-L, 1965

Box 32, folder 5

Correspondence M-Z, 1965

Box 32, folder 9

Correspondence A-J, 1966

Box 26, folder 1

Correspondence K-Z, 1966

Box 26, folder 2

Correspondence A-L, 1967

Box 26, folder 3

Correspondence M-Z, 1967

Box 26, folder 14

Correspondence A-C, 1968

Box 26, folder 15

Correspondence D-K, 1968

Box 26, folder 16

Correspondence L-R, 1968

Box 26, folder 17

Correspondence S-Z, 1968

Box 27, folder 1

Correspondence A-B, 1969

Box 27, folder 2

Correspondence C-D, 1969

Box 27, folder 3

Correspondence E-K, 1969

Box 27, folder 4

Correspondence L-P, 1969

Box 27, folder 5

Correspondence R-Z, 1969

Box 29, folder 8

Correspondence 1970

Box 27, folder 6

Correspondence A-E, 1970

Box 27, folder 7

Correspondence F-J, 1970

Box 27, folder 8

Correspondence K-O, 1970

Box 27, folder 9

Correspondence P-Z, 1970

Box 28, folder 1

Correspondence A-F, 1971

Box 28, folder 2

Correspondence G-H, 1971

Box 28, folder 3

Correspondence I-M, 1971

Box 28, folder 4

Correspondence N-Z, 1971

Box 28, folder 9

Correspondence A-F, 1972

Box 29, folder 3

Correspondence G-M, 1972

Box 28, folder 10

Correspondence N-Z, 1972

Box 29, folder 4

Correspondence A-F, 1973

Box 29, folder 5

Correspondence G-M, 1973

Box 29, folder 6

Correspondence N-Z, 1973

Box 12, folder 5

Correspondence A-F, 1974

Box 12, folder 6

Correspondence G-P, 1974

Box 12, folder 7

Correspondence Q-Z, 1974

Box 12, folder 8

Correspondence A-H, 1975

Box 12, folder 9

Correspondence I-R, 1975

Box 13, folder 1

Correspondence S-Z, 1975

Box 13, folder 2

Correspondence A-B, 1976

Box 13, folder 3

Correspondence C-I, 1976

Box 13, folder 4

Correspondence J-Q, 1976

Box 13, folder 5

Correspondence R-Z, 1976

Box 13, folder 6

Correspondence A-G, 1977

Box 11, folder 1

Correspondence F-K, 1977

Box 11, folder 2

Correspondence L-Q, 1977

Box 11, folder 3

Correspondence R-XYZ, 1977

Box 11, folder 4

Correspondence A-E, 1978

Box 11, folder 5

Correspondence F-K, 1978

Box 11, folder 6

Correspondence L-Q, 1978

Box 11, folder 7

Correspondence R-Z, 1978

Box 11, folder 8

Correspondence A-H, 1979

Box 11, folder 9

Correspondence I-Z, 1979

Box 12, folder 1

Correspondence A-C, 1980-1981

Box 12, folder 2

Correspondence D-I, 1980-1981

Box 12, folder 3

Correspondence J-P, 1980-1981

Box 12, folder 4

Correspondence Q-S, 1980-1981

Box 6, folder 4

Correspondence T-Z, 1980-1981

Box 6, folder 5

Correspondence A-G, 1982

Box 6, folder 6

Correspondence H-Q, 1982

Box 6, folder 7

Correspondence R-Z, 1982

Box 6, folder 8

Correspondence A-E, 1983-1984

Box 6, folder 9

Correspondence F-J, 1983-1984

Box 7, folder 1

Correspondence K-R, 1983-1984

Box 7, folder 2

Correspondence S-Z, 1983-1984

Box 7, folder 3

Correspondence A-G, 1985-1986

Box 7, folder 4

Correspondence H-N, 1985-1986

Box 7, folder 5

Correspondence O-Z, 1985-1986

Box 10, folder 1

Correspondence A-D, 1987

Box 10, folder 2

Correspondence E-M, 1987

Box 10, folder 3

Correspondence N-Z, 1987

Box 2, folder 14

Benno C. Schmidt, correspondence and papers, 1974-82

Box 18, folder 13

Bellagio Study and Conference Center, correspondence, 1975

Box 26, folder 10

American Professors for Peace in the Middle East, Correspondence, 1967-1969

Box 26, folder 11

Student Reports, DNA, Correspondence, 1961-1969

Box 26, folder 12

Whiting file, Correspondence, 1964-1965

Box 26, folder 4-8

Special Subjects Correspondence, 1967

Box 26, folder 9

Journal of Biological Chemistry, Correspondence with, 1953-1962

Box 28, folder 5

Japan, April 1971

Box 28, folder 6

Germany/Israel Trip, Oct-Nov 1971

Box 28, folder 7

Irvine, 1971 Oct

Box 29, folder 7

Guggenheim Foundation, 1968-1972

Box 30, folder 1

Correspondence, Prism magazine, Genetic disease and the Support of Science 1973,

Box 30, folder 11

Academic Press, correspondence re: publication of manuscript, included, "Bacterial DNA Polymerases," 1973

Box 31, folder 10

Correspondence, Cranks, 1959

Box 31, folder 11

Correspondence re: Nobel Lecture, 1959-1960

Box 31, folder 12

Correspondence, Sweden, 1959-1960

Box 31, folder 13

Correspondence, Political, 1961-1964

Box 32, folder 6

Correspondence re: remodeling, 1965-1966

Box 32, folder 7

Correspondence MA General Hospital Advisor's Committee, 1965-1966

Box 32, folder 8

ASBC President, Correspondence, 1965-1966

 

Series 2. Research and Laboratory Notebooks Series 2  1938-1970

Language of Material: English.
Box 7, folder 6

Pricer Methods

Box 7, folder 7

Ion Exchange [Dataleaflets/Graphs]

Box 7, folder 8

Spectra [Research Notes]

Box 15, folder 1-10

Medical student notes, 1938-41

Box 16, folder 9

Lab Notebooks: Berkley Brookhaven Boulder 1951; 1955; 1958

Box 16, folder 10

Lab Notebooks: Pacific Grove 1953

Box 16, folder 11-17

Lab Notebooks: SK 1953-[1957]

Box 17, folder 1

Lab Notebooks: SK Polymerase I & II, 1958; 1958-1959

Box 17, folder 2

Lab Notebooks: Johnson Polymerase 1961 Dec-1962 Apr

Box 17, folder 3

Lab Notebooks: SK 1978

Box 17, folder 4-5

Lab Notebooks: New England Enzyme Center: Enzyme Preparations and Fermentations

Box 17, folder 6

Lab Notebooks: PRPP Book 1 [Vancouver], Jan-Feb 1957

Box 17, folder 7

Lab Notebooks: PRPP Book 2 [Vancouver II], Feb 7-Feb 16, 1957

Box 19, folder data_value_missing_7ebdff2bacf444f09820a933a6af113b

Lab Notebooks: NYU (v. 1-17) 1947-1951

Box 20, folder data_value_missing_a97acb059a53a80f1ae511f060ab85cb

Lab Notebooks: NYU (v. 18-21) 1951-1953

Box 20, folder data_value_missing_c298829d8141145ddab7a9a1c73eb7b2

Lab Notebooks: (v. 22-33) 1954-1958

Box 21, folder data_value_missing_a5e744763570a412a1aa0d628a0eac9e

Lab Notebooks: (v. 34-49) 1958-1967

Box 22, folder data_value_missing_767e538a49d5998d301a93731541e8c8

Lab Notebooks: (v. 51-65) 1963-1969

Box 23, folder 1

Lab Notebooks: (v. 66-67) 1969

Box 17, folder 8

Lab Notebooks: Radding 1959-1961

Box 17, folder 9

Lab Notebooks: Zimmerman 1958-1961

Box 17, folder 10

Lab Notebooks: Aposnian 1959-1962

Box 17, folder 11

Lab Notebooks: Frautner

Box 17, folder 12

Lab Notebooks: Swartz 1960-1961

Box 23, folder 2

Lab Notebooks: Bertsch Em 1969-1970

Box 23, folder 3

Lab Notebooks: Atkinson 1968

Box 23, folder 4

Lab Notebooks: Cozzarelli 1968

Box 23, folder 5

Lab Notebooks: Wehrli, Jackson, Albettson (1962 and 1964)

Box 23, folder 6

Lab Notebooks: Okazaki 1962-1963

Box 23, folder 7

Lab Notebooks: Okazaki undated

Box 23, folder 8

Lab Notebooks: Nussbaum 1961-1963

Box 23, folder 9

Lab Notebooks: Reichard/Levy/Richardson undated

 

Series 3. Lectures and Seminars Series 3  1949-1987

Language of Material: English.
Box 1, folder 21-32

Lectures 1966-1973

Box 2, folder 3-9

Lectures 1974-1977

Box 3, folder 16-43

Lectures (off campus) 1972-1974

Box 4

Lectures (off campus) 1975-1981

Box 9, folder 1-56

Lectures/Symposia 1982-1987

Box 7, folder 9

Seminars 1949

Box 7, folder 10

Seminars 1950

Box 7, folder 11

Seminars 1951

Box 8, folder 1

Seminars 1952-1954

Box 8, folder 2

Seminars 1955-1958

Box 8, folder 3

Seminars 1959-1960

Box 30, folder 6

Seminars correspondence 1970-1971,

Box 30, folder 7

Seminars correspondence 1972-1976,

Box 17, folder 13

Seminars 1980

Box 17, folder 14

Seminars 1981

Box 17, folder 15

Seminars 1982

Box 16, folder 8

Talks 1948-1957

Box 18, folder 1-11

Talks 1959-1980

Box 30, folder 5

Talks 1971

Box 16, folder 6

Lipkins course, 1954

Box 16, folder 7

St. Louis microbiology lectures, 1956

Box 18, folder 12

Enzyme substrate complex (seminar)

Box 18, folder 14-35

Series of speaking engagements 1960s-1970s

 

Series 4. Professional Files Series 4  1947-1987

Language of Material: English.
Box 1, folder 5-6

Papers submitted for publication, 1967

Box 2, folder 1-2

Correspondence re: publishing book [DNA Synthesis], 1972-79

Box 2, folder 10

Book reviews

Box 2, folder 11

Weizmann Institute, 1971-1980

Box 2, folder 12-13

Senate and House Hearings, 1968-1973

Box 2, folder 15-19

Research support 1972-1977

Box 3, folder 1

Research support, 1978-83

Box 3, folder 2

Genetic Engineering 1976

Box 3, folder 4

Genetic Engineering 1978

Box 3, folder 3

Genetic Engineering 1977

Box 3, folder 5

Senator Kennedy letter [re biomedical research and federal funding], 1978

Box 3, folder 9

Weizmann Leadership Conference, Los Angeles, June 1981

Box 3, folder 10

California Medical Association, Anaheim meeting, 1981

Box 3, folder 11

Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies - Biomedical Workshop 1981

Box 3, folder 12

ARK Symposium March 1982

Box 3, folder 13

National Science Foundation Research Proposal (Membranes in DNA Replications and the Viral Life Cycle) 1978

Box 3, folder 15

Aging Grant (DNA Transactions and Aging) 1980-83

Box 9, folder 57-60

Grants: NSF, NIH 1978-1983, 1982-1987

Box 10, folder 4-20

Professional organizations, misc. files

Box 13, folder 7-26

Reports, lectures, trips, plans, preparations, 1953-67

Box 15, folder 19-22

Miscellaneous research files

Box 16, folder 5

Publications, 1947-52

Box 25, folder 7

Wiesmeyer, Herbert, "The Characterization of the Maltose Permease and Amylomaltose of E. Coli," Ph.D. Thesis Washington University 1959,

Box 26, folder 18

National Academy of Sciences, 1968-1969

Box 29, folder 10

California State Board of Education-Evolution vs. Creation 1972

Box 29, folder 11

National Academy of Sciences

Box 29, folder 12

National Academy of Sciences Editorial Board 1966

Box 29, folder 13

National Academy of Sciences Editorial Board 1965

Box 29, folder 14

New England Enzyme Center, NIH Panels, reviews, etc.

Box 30, folder 12

Notebook of Kornberg's reports "Enzymatic Synthesis of DNA"

 

Series 5. Class Materials Series 5 1953-1968

Language of Material: English.
Box 8, folder 4

Micro-Biology Syllabus 1953

Box 8, folder 5

Micro-Biology Syllabus 1955

Box 8, folder 6

Micro-Biology Syllabus 1956

Box 8, folder 7

Micro-Biology Syllabus 1957

Box 8, folder 8

Micro-Biology Syllabus 1958

Box 8, folder 9

Biochemistry 101-102, 1959-1960

Box 8, folder 10

Biochemistry 101-102, 1961

Box 8, folder 11

Biochemistry 101-102, 1962

Box 31, folder 1

Biochemistry 101-102 (examinations and review questions), 1960-1964

Box 14, folder 1-4

Biochemistry 101-102, 1963-1968

Box 1, folder 7

Biochemistry 103, 1966

Box 1, folder 8

Biochemistry 103, 1968

Box 1, folder 9

General chemistry workshop, 1968

Box 1, folder 10

Biology 10-113, 1968

 

Series 6. Stanford Administrative and Departmental Records Series 6 1961-1986

Language of Material: English.
Box 3, folder 6

Industrial Affiliates Program (Bio Chemistry Dept.), 1980-84

Box 3, folder 8

Anniversary Scientific Symposia, 1980

Box 3, folder 14

Roof Project: expansion of biochemistry building, 1980

Box 25, folder 6

Executive Committee minutes, 1961-62

Box 29, folder 9

Budget Cuts 1973

Box 1, folder 1-4

Biochemistry dept. minutes 1966-1970

Box 5

Biochemistry dept. records (faculty minutes), 1971-1983

Box 6, folder 1-3

Biochemistry dept. records (faculty minutes), 1984-1986

Box 30, folder 9

Binder re Department Responsibilities, 1969-71

Box 30, folder 10

Executive Committee: minutes, agenda, reports, 1969

Box 1, folder 11

Student unrest, 1968-69

Box 1, folder 12

Student unrest, 1969

Box 1, folder 13-20

Stanford administrative files, 1968-71

 

Series 7. Personal and Miscellaneous Papers Series 7 1947-1979

Language of Material: English.
Box 14, folder 5-11

Newspaper clippings, 1967

Box 23, folder 11

Newspaper clippings, publicity, 1979

Box 16, folder 3

Insurance, 1947-52

Box 16, folder 4

Personal, 1947-52

Box 33, folder 1-7

Miscellaneous papers

 

Series 8. Audiovisual Materials Series 8 1971 and undated

Language of Material: English.
Box 34-35

Illustrations for lectures [Lantern Slides]

Language of Material: English.
Box 36

Kornberg, Arthur: Membrane structure 36.1 1971 Feb 22

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
Box 36

Roseman, T.J.: Membrane function in permeation 36.2 23-Feb-71

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
Box 36

Kornberg, Arthur: Cell envelopes 36.3-36.5 Feb 24-26, 1971

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)
Box 36

Bloch: Steroid structure and synthesis 36.6-36.7 1971 Mar 2-3

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)
Box 36

Kornberg, Arthur: Opening address, Cold Spring Harbor 36.8 1978

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
 

Addenda, 2002-186 Accession ARCH-2002-186

Language of Material: English.
Box 1

Correspondence file re book DNA Sequencing 1973-76

Box 1

Letters of recommendation 1980-88

Box 1

Trip files 1996, 1997 Jan.-Mar

Box 1

Notes of graduate student James Flynn on biochemistry, mathematics and physics

Box 2

Trip files Apr.-Dec. 1997

Box 2

Annual Review Article, 10/22/1998

Box 2

File re several publications 1997-98

Box 2

Transcript of UC-Berkeley oral history with Kornberg (1997)

Box 2

Transcripts from Du Pont trial (Du Pont v Cetus regarding patents) 1989-91, v. 1-4

Box 3

Transcripts from Du Pont trial 1991, v. 5-17

Box 3

Additional materials re Du Pont trial, 1989-81 (correspondence, copies of articles, etc.)

Box 4

Transcripts from Du Pont trial 1991, v. 18-21

Box 4

Other transcripts/documents from trial 1990

Box 4

"For the Love of Enzymes," typescript

Box 4

"For the Love of Enzymes," correspondence 1989-93

Box 4

"For the Love of Enzymes," letters and reviews 1989-91

Box 4

Khorana, Dr. H. Gobind – correspondence 1955-68

Box 4

Medical school 1938: biochemistry class notes

Box 4

"A Kennedy Plan" 12/7/60 [one page re development in Latin America of medical research institutes]

Box 4

Photograph and neg of Kornberg portrait

Box 4

DNA polymerase mechanism – notes, illustrations, correspondence, articles, 1969-71

Box 4

DNA duplication, DNA polymerase – assorted articles, clippings, 1954-73

Box 4

DNA duplication, DNA polymerase – correspondence, notes, charts, 1955-72

Box 4

Washington University, Dept of Microbiology – exams and miscellany, 1958-60

Box 4

Szilard, Leo, – letter and petition in response to invasion of Cuba 1961

Box 4

Sherberg, Esther, letter, 1958

Box 4

Kornberg – discharge from U.S. Public Health Service 1953

Box 4

Kornberg – press release and c.v., 1959

Box 5

Weizmann Institute – Bay Area

Box 5

Weizmann Institute

Box 5

Stanford Correspondence 1973-86

Box 5

DNA Replication – update 1981 (correspondence)

Box 5

Book – permissions

Box 5

DNA Replication – requests for figure permission

Box 5

DNA Replication – figure permissions

Box 5

Book – DNA Replication

Box 5

"For the Love of Enzymes," preliminary work, interviews, comments and communications

Box 5

"For the Love of Enzymes," draft

Box 5

"For the Love of Enzymes," image (color transparency)

Box 5

Berk Foundation Awards Dinners, programs

Box 5

Kornberg's diaries (calendars) 1966/67-2001

Box 6

Figure plates for DNA Replication and other publications

Box 7

Assorted publications, mostly biographical re Kornberg

Box 7

"Scientists' Lounge" with A. Kornberg and Dr. Osamm Hayaishi; unlabelled 1971 Apr 12

General Physical Description note: 2 audiotape(s) (reel-to-reel)
Box 8

Certificates, programs, calendars featuring Kornberg, galleys of For the Love of Enzymes, and two plaques

Box 9

Plaques and framed items

 

Posters

Box MC

1. Hearts and Minds The Life and Science of Alejandro Zaffaroni

Box MC

2. "Mechanisms of E. Coli DNA Replication" – Basic Sciences Research Coloquia – Stanford University School of Medicine, Oct. 20, 1983

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3. Buzz Baldwin Symposium, Berkeley, July 30, 1998

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4. Book jacket (2 copies) for Kornberg's For the Love of Enzymes

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5. Vedua di S. Gimignano [old map reproduction] signed by 21 people "To Arthur Kornberg with affection"

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6. Gene Action – '95 In Appreciation of Charley [Yanofsky], Asilomar, April 1995. (2 copies plus letter and list of attendees)

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7. I. Robert Lehman Symposium Seventieth Year 1994

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8. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995. Edward B. Lewis, Christine Nusslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus.

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9. 1979 Silliman Memorial Lectures by Arthur Kornberg

 

Addenda, 2007-322. Profiles in Science  images and metadata Accession ARCH-2007-322 2007 Sep 14

Physical Description: 400 megabyte(s)
General Physical Description note: (321 computer files in 4 directories)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

As part of its Profiles in Science project, the National Library of Medicine has collaborated with Stanford University Libraries Department of Special Collections and University Archives to digitize and make available over the World Wide Web a selection of the Arthur Kornberg Papers for use by educators and researchers. This site provides access to the portions of the Arthur Kornberg Papers of Stanford University Libraries Department of Special Collections and University Archives that have been selected for digitization. Individuals interested in conducting research in the Arthur Kornberg Papers are invited to contact Stanford University Libraries Department of Special Collections and University Archives.
 

[Notes on bile pigments] WHBBBB 6/7/1939

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

For several years in medical school, Kornberg developed an interest in bile pigments and benign jaundice, and conducted a small study on the incidence of Gilbert's disease among medical students. The resulting publication would lead to a research job at the National Institutes of Health in 1942.; Item is handwritten.
 

Draft memorandum from Arthur Kornberg to Floyd S. Daft regarding fellowship questionnaires WHBBBC circa 1948

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

This memo to his NIH section chief, Floyd Daft, detailed Kornberg's criteria for awarding postdoctoral fellowships.; Item is handwritten.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Fritz Lipmann WHBBBD 5/12/1949

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this letter to biochemist Fritz Lipmann, Kornberg provided details about the enzyme he had purified for splitting DPN (diphosphopyridine nucleotide).
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Alan Mehler WHBBBF 2/21/1949

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

This letter to his friend Alan Mehler discussed the difficulties involved in Kornberg's ongoing studies of metabolic enzymes, and also mentioned the visit of the eminent German biochemist Otto Warburg.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Edwin G. Kreb WHBBBG 2/17/1949

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this letter to his friend and prospective colleague Edwin Kreb, Kornberg described the benefits of working at NIH, as well as his feelings about the changes that were occurring there at the time, such as the building of the new Clinical Center.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Severo Ochoa WHBBBH 1/24/1949

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this letter to his former mentor Severo Ochoa, Kornberg discussed the various challenges involved with using different yeast cultures as sources for enzymes.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Severo Ochoa WHBBBJ 12/31/1948

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this letter to his former mentor Severo Ochoa, Kornberg asked if Ochoa could return some Zwischenferment (the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase) Kornberg had sent him, as the most recent batch wasn't proving as useful for their current experiments. He also reported feeling rather discouraged with the slow progress of his work on metabolic coenzymes.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Kenneth E. Holt WHBBBK 12/23/1948

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Kornberg and other enzymologists were aided in their work by researchers at the Anheuser-Busch brewery, who provided supplies of "cleaned" yeast for use as enzyme sources, as illustrated by this letter.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to J. Oliver Lampen WHBBBL 10/15/1948

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Biologists and biochemists during the 1940s and 1950s frequently shared their supplies of enzymes and other products of their labs, as there was often no other source. In this letter to J. O. Lampen, a friend from his time at the Cori lab, Kornberg regretted that he had no ready supplies of nicotinamide derivatives to send, and also discussed his current experiments.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Carl F. Cori WHBBBM 10/6/1948

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this letter to his former mentor Carl Cori, Kornberg described his recent success with a new enzyme, and some insights about the role of inorganic pyrophosphate in metabolic processes, and asked Cori to review the report he was preparing on this work.
 

Letter from G. A. LePage to Arthur Kornberg WHBBBN 11/30/1949

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Kornberg had earlier requested information from G. A. LePage about his new method for preparing TPN (triphosphopyridine nucleotide), but the product he made using the method was not satisfactory. In this letter, LePage discussed possible reasons for Kornberg's problems with the process.
 

Letter from G. A. LePage to Arthur Kornberg WHBBBP 5/10/1949

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Interested in using TPN (triphosphopyridine nucleotide) for his next series of enzyme studies, Kornberg had written to G. A. LePage for information about his new method for preparing TPN. In this response, LePage detailed the equipment and supplies Kornberg's lab would need to make TPN.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Alex B. Novikoff WHBBBS 5/23/1951

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this letter, Kornberg responded to Novikoff's request for information about preparation of Zwischenferment (the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase) and samples to begin the process.
 

Letter from Alex B. Novikoff to Arthur Kornberg WHBBBT 5/8/1951

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this letter, biochemist Alex Novikoff asked Kornberg for information about preparing Zwischenferment (the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase) and several other substances needed for the process.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Herman M. Kalckar WHBBBV 3/21/1951

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this letter to biochemist Herman Kalckar, Kornberg provided him with information about the NIH research grants process, and also gave him an update on his work on nucleotide synthesis.
 

Letter from Carl F. Cori to Arthur Kornberg WHBBBX 2/15/1951

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Kornberg's former mentor Carl Cori wrote to suggest another possible interpretation of a reaction involving TPN, and added a postscript saying, "What mysterious creatures enzymes are."
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Henry A. Lardy WHBBBY 2/6/1951

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this letter to biochemist Henry Lardy, Kornberg shared his recent work on the pathway of uridine triphosphate synthesis, part of the early work that led him to nucleotide synthesis, and ultimately to DNA synthesis.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to W. E. Cohn WHBBBZ 1/17/1951

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this letter, Kornberg congratulated biochemist Waldo Cohn on his recent success in isolating single nucleotides from RNA, and discussed his own recent work (closely related to Cohn's) with the nucleotide pyrophosphatase derived from potatoes.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Robert K. Morton WHBBCC 11/16/1961

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Robert Morton, an Australian biochemist, had recently found that baker's yeast contained a cytochrome (a protein involved in electron transfer in cell metabolism) with a DNA component. That DNA proved to have different base ratios than the yeast's nuclear DNA. He had suggested that this DNA could be used in understanding nucleotide sequences, and Kornberg had been working with some samples Morton sent, looking at their ability to prime DNA synthesis with his polymerase. In this letter, he reported some of his findings to Morton.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to W. E. Cohn WHBBCD 2/24/1950

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Biologists and biochemists during the 1940s and 1950s frequently shared their supplies of enzymes and other products of their labs, as there was often no other source. In this letter to Waldo Cohn, Kornberg apologized for the quality of a previous sample sent, and provided more specific information about its requirements.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Carl F. and Gerty Cori WHBBCF 9/28/1950

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this letter to his former mentors, Carl and Gerty Cori, Kornberg thanked them for good wishes regarding his Paul-Lewis Award, and told them of his ongoing lab work, changes at NIH, and the arrival of his third son, Kenneth.
 

Letter from G. David Novelli to Arthur Kornberg WHBBCG 11/6/1950

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Biologists and biochemists during the 1940s and 1950s frequently shared their supplies of enzymes and other products of their labs, as there was often no other source. In this letter, biochemist G. David Novelli reported to Kornberg on his experiments with a sample of Kornberg's nucleotide-splitting enzyme.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to G. David Novelli WHBBCH 11/14/1950

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this letter, Kornberg responded to biochemist G. David Novelli's letter describing the activity of an enzyme Kornberg had sent him.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to the editors of the Journal of Biological Chemistry WHBBCK 1/29/1958

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to John T. Edsall WHBBCL 12/11/1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to the editors of the Journal of Biological Chemistry WHBBCM 12/11/1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
 

Letter from John T. Edsall to Arthur Kornberg WHBBCN 12/27/1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Paul Berg to Arthur Kornberg WHBBCP 7/14/1970

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Leslie E. Orgel to Arthur Kornberg WHBBCQ circa Aug 1969

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Includes a note from Francis Crick.; Item is handwritten.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Leslie E. Orgel and Francis Crick WHBBCR 8/19/1969

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Julius Marmur to Arthur Kornberg WHBBCT 1/28/1960

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from I. Robert Lehman to Julius Marmur WHBBCV 2/9/1960

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from H. George Mandel to Arthur Kornberg WHBBCW 1/7/1960

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to H. George Mandel WHBBCX 1/11/1960

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Andre Lwoff WHBBCZ 10/6/1960

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to James O. Eastland WHBBDB 10/7/1960

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Van R. Potter WHBBDD 7/5/1960

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Robert L. Sinsheimer to Arthur Kornberg WHBBDF 10/6/1960

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from William F. Dove to Arthur Kornberg WHBBDG 9/30/1971

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to William F. Dove WHBBDH 10/15/1971

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from William F. Dove to Arthur Kornberg WHBBDJ 10/18/1971

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Bruce Alberts to Arthur Kornberg WHBBDK 3/23/1971

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Bruce Alberts WHBBDL 8/6/1971

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Paul Englund WHBBDM 12/17/1971

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Senator Edward M. Kennedy WHBBDN 3/27/1978

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Item is a photocopy.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Paul N. McCloskey, Jr WHBBDX 8/8/1977

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Donald S. Fredrickson WHBBDY 2/25/1977

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Item is a photocopy.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Henry S. Kaplan WHBBFB 7/16/1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Robert H. Alway WHBBFD 6/18/1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Robert H. Alway to Arthur Kornberg WHBBFF 6/13/1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Henry S. Kaplan to Arthur Kornberg WHBBFG 6/24/1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Henry S. Kaplan WHBBFH 1/6/1958

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Alexander Rich WHBBFK 3/14/1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Howard K. Schachman WHBBFL 11/15/1956

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Robert L. Sinsheimer WHBBFM 12/14/1956

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Maurice H. F. Wilkins to Arthur Kornberg WHBBFN 8/20/1956

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Item is handwritten.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Maurice H. F. Wilkins WHBBFP 10/11/1956

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Leon A. Heppel WHBBFQ 3/9/1955

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to John R. Van Wazar WHBBFR 11/4/1955

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to H. Gobind Khorana WHBBFS 1/10/1956

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Robert H. Alway to Arthur Kornberg WHBBFT 7/1/1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Frederick E. Terman WHBBFV 2/6/1958

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

[Telegram invitation to a White House meeting with Lyndon Johnson] WHBBGB 9/30/1964

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to James A. Shannon WHBBGC 3/11/1968

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Item is a photocopy.
 

Letter from Robert Baldwin to Arthur Kornberg WHBBGD 5/20/1959

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Robert Baldwin WHBBGF 5/27/1959

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

[Biochemistry 101 exam] WHBBGG 1960-1961

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

[Biochemistry 101 exam] WHBBGH 1961-1962

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to H. Gobind Khorana WHBBGJ 2/28/1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to H. Gobind Khorana WHBBGK 3/8/1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from H. Gobind Khorana to Arthur Kornberg WHBBGL 3/18/1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Item is handwritten.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Robert K. Morton WHBBGP 10/29/1962

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Robert Morton, an Australian biochemist, had recently found that baker's yeast contained a cytochrome (a protein involved in electron transfer in cell metabolism) with a DNA component. That DNA proved to have different base ratios than the yeast's nuclear DNA. He had suggested that this DNA could be used in understanding nucleotide sequences, and Kornberg had been working with some samples Morton sent, looking at their ability to prime DNA synthesis with his polymerase. In this letter, Kornberg apologized for letting other projects delay his work on the Morton DNA.
 

Letter from Muriel Beadle to Arthur Kornberg WHBBGR 1/26/1965

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In 1966, geneticist and Nobel laureate George Beadle and his wife Muriel published a laymen's guide to genetics titled "The Language of Life: An Introduction to the Science of Genetics." In this 1965 letter, Muriel Beadle asked Kornberg to clarify some details of his DNA synthesis work to include in the book.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Muriel Beadle WHBBGS 2/4/1965

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In 1966, geneticist and Nobel laureate George Beadle and his wife Muriel published a laymen's guide to genetics titled "The Language of Life: An Introduction to the Science of Genetics." In this 1965 letter, Kornberg responded to Muriel Beadle's request for details of his DNA synthesis work to include in the book.
 

Letter from Muriel Beadle to Arthur Kornberg WHBBGT 2/14/1965

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In 1966, geneticist and Nobel laureate George Beadle and his wife Muriel published a laymen's guide to genetics titled "The Language of Life: An Introduction to the Science of Genetics." In an earlier letter, Muriel Beadle had asked Kornberg to clarify some details of his DNA synthesis work to include in the book. In this letter, she attached a chapter draft incorporating his response.; Item is handwritten.
 

[Chapter 19, p. 219] WHBBGV circa Feb 1965

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Muriel Beadle sent Kornberg this manuscript insert for Chapter 19 of "The Language of Life: An Introduction to the Science of Genetics," after incorporating some details on his DNA synthesis work. Co-authored by geneticist George Beadle, the book was published in 1966.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to D. S. Fahrney WHBBGW 1/14/1965

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Like many acclaimed scientists, Kornberg was keenly aware that scientific merit was not the sole basis for awards and other honors. He made this clear when asked to recommend others for awards, as in this letter regarding Marshall Nirenberg, who would win a Nobel Prize in 1968 for his work on the genetic code.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Allan Hauck WHBBGY 5/27/1965

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

As a Nobel laureate, Kornberg often received requests for his opinions on philosophical questions. He responded with concise and thoughtful answers, as illustrated by his letter to philosophy professor Allan Hauck.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Robert L. Sinsheimer WHBBGZ 7/9/1965

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Working to synthesize a viable DNA, Kornberg turned to the small bacterial viruses M13 and Phi X174. Biophysicist Robert Sinsheimer at the California Institute of Technology had found that the single-stranded, circular Phi X174 virus DNA was converted to a double helix after entering its E. coli host, and the double stranded form was by itself infective. In this letter, Kornberg asked for a sample of Sinsheimer's virus to start investigating its possible use as a replication template. It was from this virus that Kornberg was able to create an infective synthetic viral DNA in 1967.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Robert L. Sinsheimer WHBBHB 7/29/1965

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Working to synthesize a viable DNA, Kornberg turned to the small bacterial viruses M13 and Phi X174. Biophysicist Robert Sinsheimer at the California Institute of Technology had found that the single-stranded, circular Phi X174 virus DNA was converted to a double helix after entering its E. coli host, and by itself was infective. In a previous letter, Kornberg had asked for a sample of Sinsheimer's virus to start investigating its possible use as a replication template. This letter reported on his initial results with the virus. It was from this virus that Kornberg was able to create an infective synthetic viral DNA in 1967.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Henry M. Sobell WHBBHC 4/22/1965

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In their work with DNA polymerase, Kornberg and his colleagues had found that it could induce a seemingly spontaneous synthesis of an adenine-thymine polymer, without a template. This phenomenon raised a number of questions about the nature of chemical bonds in nucleotides and nucleic acids, and the exact mechanism of the polymerase. In this letter, Kornberg responded to Henry Sobell's research proposal on this topic.
 

Letter from Henry M. Sobell to Arthur Kornberg WHBBHD 12/31/1964

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In their work with DNA polymerase, Kornberg and his colleagues had found that it could induce a seemingly spontaneous synthesis of an adenine-thymine polymer, without a template. This phenomenon raised a number of questions about the nature of chemical bonds in nucleotides and nucleic acids, and the exact mechanism of the polymerase. In this letter, Henry Sobell asked Kornberg about the feasibility of approaching some of these problems via crystallographic studies and included his research proposal on this topic.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to George Streisinger WHBBHF 2/2/1965

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Geneticist George Streisinger was a noted expert on the bacterial virus (phage) T4. In this letter, Kornberg asked him if there might be a mutant strain of T4 suitable for studying DNA synthesis in infected E. coli cells, noting that regular T4 produced so much lysozyme that the host cells were too fragile to harvest.
 

Letter from George Streisinger to Arthur Kornberg WHBBHG 2/9/1965

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Geneticist George Streisinger was a noted expert on the bacterial virus (phage) T4, and Kornberg had written to ask him if there might be a mutant strain of T4 suitable for studying DNA synthesis in infected E. coli cells. In this letter, Streisinger explained that such a mutant had been isolated and provided detailed instructions for preparing cultures.
 

The Chemical Basis of Heredity WHBBHH 10/17/1961

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this lecture given to an audience of non-scientists, Kornberg demonstrated his talent for making complex topics accessible, and provided a look at the state of the art in molecular biology in 1961.
 

[National Cancer Conference presentation (Philadelphia)] WHBBHJ 1964-9

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this presentation at the 1964 National Cancer Conference, Kornberg discussed how molecular biology research, though a "poverty pocket" in the academic world, might soon improve our knowledge of how genes function, and how things go wrong in genetic processes.
 

An Understanding of Life on a Molecular Basis WHBBHL 4-Feb-65

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In 1965, Kornberg participated in a lecture series titled "Science--A Challenge to Man's Faith." His presentation discussed the current state of scientific knowledge about inheritance and evolution, the evolution of scientific thought itself, and the role of science as a guide to behavior. Finally, he reflected on the spiritual aspects of the pursuit of knowledge.
 

Basic Motives of a Professional Life WHBBHN 1969-7

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Kornberg was trained as a physician before he found his calling in biochemistry, and remained close to medical schools and medical problems throughout his career. In this article, he reflected on three basic motives of a professional life, as applied to careers in medicine and science.
 

Ebb Tide in Medical Research WHBBHP 9/22/1970

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

As a researcher who experienced firsthand the immense growth of federal support for scientific research after 1940, Kornberg was troubled by deep research budget cuts during the Nixon administration. As he noted in this essay, scientific research was increasingly important to society, but like anything else, needed advocates to keep the public--and their representatives in government--aware of its value.; Based on remarks made at the Markle Scholars' Meeting.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg and David S. Hogness to Newton Steward WHBBHQ 10/23/1972

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

During the 1960s, the California State Department of Education had been increasingly pressured by religious groups to include Creation Theory in science textbooks used in the public schools. In 1972, Kornberg and his colleague David Hogness asked to address the Department on this matter, and explained why they believed that including Creation Theory would be bad for science education (and would make Californians the "laughing stock of the entire civilized world"). After hearings in 1972, the Department of Education decided not to require Creation Theory in science textbooks or curricula.; Item is a photocopy.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Edward Dempsey WHBBHR 10/30/1956

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Salvador E. Luria WHBBHT 3/14/1961

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Avram Goldstein WHBBMN 7/16/1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

[Lab notebook 33, 1957-1958 (excerpt 1)] WHBBMP 30 August - 18 September 1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Item is handwritten. Item is a photocopy.
 

[Lab notebook 33, 1957-1958 (excerpt 2)] WHBBMQ 20 September - 1 October 1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Item is handwritten. Item is a photocopy.
 

[Lab notebook 28, 1956 (excerpt 1)] WHBBMR 18-20 July 1956

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Item is handwritten. Item is a photocopy.
 

[Lab notebook 28, 1956 (excerpt 2)] WHBBMS 30-Aug-56

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Item is handwritten. Item is a photocopy.
 

[Lab notebook 28, 1956 (excerpt 3)] WHBBMT 6-7 September 1956

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Item is handwritten. Item is a photocopy.
 

[Lab notebook 28, 1956 (excerpt 4)] WHBBMV 22-25 September 1956

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Item is handwritten. Item is a photocopy.
 

[Lab notebook 28, 1956 (excerpt 5)] WHBBMW 19-Sep-56

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Item is handwritten. Item is a photocopy.
 

[Lab notebook 28, 1956 (excerpt 6)] WHBBMX 4-8 October 1956

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Item is handwritten. Item is a photocopy.
 

[Lab notes on Morton DNA] WHBBMZ 6/13/1961

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Item is handwritten.
 

Letter from W. E. Cohn to Arthur Kornberg WHBBBW 3/15/1951

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Biochemist Waldo Cohn had taught Kornberg the powerful technique of ion exchange chromatography in 1949. In this letter, he responded to Kornberg's recent work on the likely configuration of the nucleotides he was then studying.
 

Letter from Senator Edward M. Kennedy to Arthur Kornberg WHBBDP 1/31/1978

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

[Fact sheet on federal research funding] WHBBDQ 19-Jan-78

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Part of a package for participants in Senate hearings on 19 January 1978.
 

Issues to be Addressed by Scientists with Government WHBBDR 19-Jan-78

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Part of a package for participants in Senate hearings on 19 January 1978.
 

Goals of the Scientific Delegation WHBBDS 19-Jan-78

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Part of a package for participants in Senate hearings on 19 January 1978.
 

Backgrounder on Recombinant DNA Research WHBBDW 7/20/1977

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Alexander Rich to Arthur Kornberg WHBBFJ 3/8/1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Hearings on the Human Impact of Advance in Biological Science [Testimony to Senate Subcommittee on Government Research] WHBBHM 3/8/1968

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

The success of Kornberg and others in creating synthetic copies of DNA and RNA had provoked public concern about the future consequences of genetic engineering, even before recombinant DNA technology was developed in the 1970s. In March 1968, Kornberg and other leading researchers in the field testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Government Research to address these concerns. Kornberg explained the current state of knowledge in molecular biology, the immense potential for medical applications, and the need for much more federal funding for this branch of research.
 

Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Arthur Kornberg WHBBHS 1/27/1958

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Severo Ochoa to Arthur Kornberg WHBBBQ 3/29/1949

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this letter, Kornberg's former mentor Severo Ochoa thanked him for a sample of TPN (triphosphopyridine nucleotide) and discussed his ongoing work on citrate synthesis.
 

Letter from Severo Ochoa to Arthur Kornberg WHBBBR 1/3/1949

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

In this letter, Kornberg's former mentor Severo Ochoa discussed his current work with biotin and its possible role in metabolism.
 

[Map of Stanford University Campus] WHBBDZ circa 1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

[Architect's model of new Stanford Medical Center] WHBBFC 1957

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

[Construction of Edwards Building, Stanford Medical School] WHBBFW circa 1958

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

[Construction of hospital wing, Stanford Medical School] WHBBFX circa 1958

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

[Construction of Lane Medical Library, Stanford Medical School] WHBBFY circa 1958

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

[Construction of Clinic Building, Stanford Medical School] WHBBFZ circa 1958

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Severo Ochoa to Arthur Kornberg WHBBGQ 5/11/1962

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Robert K. Morton to Arthur Kornberg WHBBCB 11/29/1961

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents note

Biologists and biochemists during the 1940s and 1950s frequently shared their supplies of enzymes and other products of their labs, as there was often no other source. Here Robert Morton responded to Kornberg's report, sent several weeks earlier.
 

Letter from the editors of the Journal of Biological Chemistry to Arthur Kornberg WHBBCJ 1/24/1958

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Francis Crick to Arthur Kornberg WHBBCS 5/10/1960

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Andre Lwoff to Arthur Kornberg WHBBCY 9/27/1960

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Van R. Potter to Arthur Kornberg WHBBDC 5/18/1960

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

DNA Synthesizer Says Fear of Unknown Hurts Research WHBBDT 9/10/1969

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)

Scope and Contents note

Item is a photocopy.
 

Creator of DNA Scores Talk of 'Biological Bomb' WHBBDV 1/6/1972

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Letter from Francis Crick to Arthur Kornberg WHBBGM 10/17/1959

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)

Scope and Contents note

Writing to congratulate Kornberg on receiving a Nobel Prize, Francis Crick also provided an update on the current work of his colleagues Max Perutz and John Kendrew. In 1962, Perutz and Kendrew would share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the structures of proteins such as hemoglobin and myoglobin; Crick would share the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, for the discovery of the structure of DNA.; Item is handwritten.
 

Letter from Allan Hauck to Arthur Kornberg WHBBGX 4/27/1965

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)

Scope and Contents note

As a Nobel laureate, Kornberg often received requests for his opinions on philosophical questions, as illustrated by this letter from philosophy professor Allan Hauck.
 

Letter from Peter M. Brown to Arthur Kornberg WHBBHK 1/12/1965

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)

Scope and Contents note

In 1965, Kornberg participated in a lecture series titled "Science--A Challenge to Man's Faith." His presentation discussed the current state of scientific knowledge about inheritance and evolution, the evolution of scientific thought itself, and the role of science as a guide to behavior. Finally, he reflected on the spiritual aspects of the pursuit of knowledge.
 

Letter from Robert K. Morton to Arthur Kornberg WHBBNB 7/14/1961

General Physical Description note: 1 computer file(s) (TIFF)
Language of Material: English.
 

Addenda, 2008-108 Accession ARCH-2008-108

Language of Material: English.
Box 1

Others' work: Abir-Am-Cori 1960s-2005

Box 2

Others' work: Cozzarelli-Heppel 1970s-1990s

Box 3

Others' work: Herschlag-Klenow 1989-2000s

Box 4

Others' work: Kline-Loeb 1950s-2000s

Box 5

Others' work: Lohman-Okinawa c. 1940-1990

Box 6

Others' work: Orgel-Thackray 1970s-2000s

Box 7

Others' work: Thomas-Zuckerman 1970s-2000s

Box 8

Article reprints of biology, biochemistry and genetics articles, lectures, working papers, correspondence arranged by author/subject, Acinobacter - Other organisms; 1970s-2000s

Box 9

Research files: Pavlov to Yeast; Seminar notes (1983-1988) 1983-2005

Box 10

Seminar notes (1996-1999); Correspondence 2007 1989-Jan. 1996, 2007

Box 11

Seminars 1996 July-1999 Dec.; "Germ Stories" drafts and correspondence; general correspondence 2007 1996-1999, 2007

Box 12

DNAX staffing; DNAX business plans; DNAX real estate; DNAX general literature 1981-1984

Box 13

[RESTRICTED: consult archivist] Files for NIH, NSF, GM grant applications 1993-2005

Language of Material: English.
Box 14

Notes, schedules for annual "Basic Science for Clinicians"; Biochem 200/202/203/204; departmental memoranda; lab meeting notes 1972-2007

Box 15

"Science and Society"; DNAX Research Institute; articles and reviews of articles; research reviews and plans; meeting notes, files by name of researcher associated with Kornberg; Schering-Plough annual reports 1978-2005

Box 16

[RESTRICTED, consult archivist] Files on companies, alphabetical by name: Genencor, Ionix, Maxygen, Promega, Regeneron, Xoma, Zyomyx; including annual reports, meeting minutes, correpondence, for which Kornberg served as advisory board member or consultant 1997-2006

Language of Material: English.
Box 18

Manuscipts with notes of talks given from 2000-2001; Nucleotide lecture materials from 1984; manuscripts, notes, articles and correspondence from 1991-2007; Lecture slides; NIH award correspondence, 2005 New Year's Eve CD-R 1984-2007

Box 18A

Slides: duplicate lecture slides, people, GAGS photos; Award ceremony pamphlets 1988-1995

Language of Material: English.
Box 19

Arthur Kornberg article publication reprints 1977-2007

Box 20

Lecture materials; proofs of works by Alejandro Zaffaroni; Stanford School of Engineering directories 1969-2006

Box 21

Conference and symposium materials (correspondence, expense records, itineraries, and event schedules) 1998-1999

Box 21A

Germ Stories by Arthur Kornberg proofs 2007

Box 22

Notes, correspondence, budget, and receipts related to domestic and foreign travel, organized by trip 2000-2007

Box 23

Correspondence, 1995 - 1996, sorted alphabetically by year. Box contains both incoming and outgoing correspondence as awell as individual letters forwarded to Kornberg. Correspondence is largely scientific and work related but it also includes personal invitations and some that touch on Jewish causes 1995-1996

Box 24

Correspondence 1997-1998 A-Z: obituaries, MIT, Brookings, Institute of Medical Science/Un of Tokyo, Princeton/Dept.Chemistry, Instituto de Quimica/Un de Sao Paulo, UCSF/Physiology, FASEB, Bancroft Library/UCB, CUNY Medical School, Mark Hatfield (OR Senator),Schering-Plough, UC Press, Osaka Bioscience Institute, Hitachi Chemical Research Center, Kyyung Hee University, photos, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, SU OTL disclosures, journal articles, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon / Medicine, Telefaxes, 1997-1998

Box 25

Correspondence 1999-2000 A-Z; translations of Golden Helix; PPK enzyme and polyphosphate; Elliott Crooke; invitations for article reviews and speaking engagements; Kornberg's signing of Nobel laureate letter advocating for biomedical research funding to President Clinton; Japan Science Foundation; inclusion in The Medical 100; Leaders in American Medicine; requests for endorsements; DNAX/Schering-Plough; Nick Cozzarelli; James O. Freedman; experiences of anti-Semitism in academia; Gerard Buttin; Santiago Grisolia; Osamu Hayaishi; Yoshito Kaziro; National Academy of Sciences; Nobel Prize Centennial; Arthur Kornberg Distinguished Lecture at Stanford; Campaign for Medical Research; Margarita Salas; ICOS 1999-2000

Box 26

Correspondence 2001-2002 A-Z: Diabetes Free World; Autobiography; National Library of Medicine; Poly P; Academia and corporate America; Celera; Andreopoulos, Spyros; Human Genome; Tokyo lecture; Michael Chamberlin; Ferst Symposium; Eugene Bauer; Nobel Foundation; Petition re stem cell executive order of President Bush; Advisory board of EvoRx, Inc.; PPK and polyphosphate; requests for postdoc positions and speaking engagements 2001-2002

Box 27

Correspondence 2003-2004 A-Z: NE BioLabs advertisement; Ten Commandments of Enzymology; Dana Foundation 50th anniversary of the Double Helix; Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology; Future of Life Summit; NIH; Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research in London; Joshua Lederberg; Herbert Tabor; Philip Yeo; Elmar Wahle; Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science Rinshoken; Ken-ichi Arai; American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Sydney Brenner; Francis Crick; Anthony Fauci; Osamu Hayaishi; "Biochemistry Matters" for Nature Structural and Molecular Biology; "Recollections: How I Became a Biochemist"; Charles McHenry; The Japan Academy; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Irving Weissman; requests for postdocs, prize nominations, and speaking engagements 2003-2004

Box 28

Correspondence 2005-2006 A-Z: memos on meetings scheduled, applications to associations, articles to individuals, on Dalai Lama visit in 2005, Tribute to classmate-Julius Axelrod, requests for article submissions, requests to review manuscripts, invitations to events, evaluations of individuals for various jobs, awards, etc, letters of recommendation, personal notes of congratulations to individuals, emails/memos/etc with his annotations, actions, instructions (to and by his administrative assistant?), letter with photocopies of photos/etc from 1959 Nobel with notes on what was written on back of them from Millerif?, correspondence with NIH, California Legislature correspondence, correspondence on interview requests, individual CVs, correspondence by Carolyn Kornberg, travel expense vouchers, correspondence with publishers, some handwritten letters/postcards, Fedex receipts, Telefaxes, 2005-2006

Box 29

Arthur Kornberg article publication reprints 1946-1975

Box 31

Posters

Language of Material: English.
Box 32

DNA. DNAX Review. Photographs. The White House, Washington. OHSU Student Forum. Proposal to establish International Acute Respiratory Infection Initiative. DNA Replication Articles by Kornberg. First Annual Distinguished Lecture.Invitations. Analysis for Kornberg Funding. Kornberg. Okinawa University. Microbe OBI. ITEMS. Patent ppk2. Patent ppk1. Patent ppk1 2000-2002

Language of Material: English.
Box 33

Department of Biochemistry records 1991-1992; Book reviews for Golden Helix 1995-1996; Collected Reprints - Department of Microbiology 1941-1960; Lecture slides 1973 1941-1996

Box 34

Lecture slides (Microbiology 204, Mitochondria, SSB, M13) 1966-1980; Germ Stories draft; Department of Microbiology records 1990; Biochemistry 294 course notes 1988-1993; Osaka Bioscience Institute award 2004 1966-1993, 2004