Guide to the Arthur Kornberg Papers

Daniel Hartwig

Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford, California

1998

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Overview

Call Number: SC0359

Creator: Kornberg, Arthur, 1918-2007

Title: Arthur Kornberg papers

Dates: 1938-2007

Physical Description: 52 Linear feet and 400 megabytes

Language(s): The materials are in English.

Repository: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford, CA 94305-6064

Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu

Phone: (650) 725-1022

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Administrative Information

Provenance

Custodial History

Gift of Arthur Kornberg, 1989, 2002, 2008.

Information about Access

Search files and other personnel files are restricted.

Ownership & Copyright

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.

Cite As

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

Associated Materials

National Library of Medicine's Profiles in Science

Biography

During 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.

Scope and Content

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.

Arrangement note

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 two additions.

Access Terms

Stanford University. School of Medicine. Dept. of Biochemistry--Faculty.

DNA--Synthesis.

Nobel Prize winners

Nobel prize--Stanford faculty--biochemistry

Collection Contents

Series 1 Correspondence 1947-1987

Stanford Correspondence, 1957-1975

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

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 1938-1970

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

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

Box 20, Folder

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

Box 20, Folder

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

Box 21, Folder

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

Box 22, Folder

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 1949-1987

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 1947-1987

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 1953-1968

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 1961-1986

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 1947-1979

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 1971 and undated

Box 34-35

Slides: illustrations for lectures

Box 36

36.1 Kornberg, Arthur: Membrane structure 1971 Feb 22

Kornberg: Membrane structure,, 1971 Feb 22

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Kornberg: Membrane structure,, circa 1650

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Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Box 36

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

Roseman: Membrane function in permeation,, Feb. 23, 1971

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Roseman: Membrane function in permeation,, Feb. 23, 1971

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Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Box 36

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

Kornberg: Cell envelopes,, 1971 Feb 24-26

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Kornberg: Cell envelopes,, 1971 Feb 24-26

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Kornberg: Cell envelopes,, 1971 Feb 24-26

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Kornberg: Cell envelopes,, 1971 Feb 24-26

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Kornberg: Cell envelopes,, 1971 Feb 24-26

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Kornberg: Cell envelopes,, 1971 Feb 24-26

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Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Box 36

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

Bloch: Steroid structure and synthesis,, 1971 Mar 2-3

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Bloch: Steroid structure and synthesis,, 1971 Mar 2-3

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Bloch: Steroid structure and synthesis,, 1971 Mar 2-3

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Bloch: Steroid structure and synthesis,, 1971 Mar 2-3

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Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Box 36

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

Kornberg: Opening address, Cold Spring Harbor,, 1978

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Kornberg: Opening address, Cold Spring Harbor,, 1978

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Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Accession ARCH-2008-108 Additional Material

Access Information

Partially restricted.

Box 1

Others' work: Abir-Am-Cori

Box 2

Others' work: Cozzarelli-Heppel

Box 3

Others' work: Herschlag-Klenow

Box 4

Others' work: Kline-Loeb

Box 5

Others' work: Lohman-Okinawa

Box 6

Others' work: Orgel-Thackray

Box 7

Others' work: Thomas-Zuckerman

Box 8

Poly P-files related to

Box 8

Acmetobacter [Acinetobacter?]-other organisms

Box 9

Poly P-files

Box 9

Pavlov-XLL

Box 9

Seminars 1983-1988

Box 10

Seminars 1989-1996 Jan.

Box 11

Seminars 1996 July-1999 Dec.

Box 11

Correspondence, Germ Stories 2007

Box 12

DNAX: Staffing-Eugenics 1984

Box 13

Grant files (?) 007581 Revision 2005

Box 13

Wednesday club

Box 13

Reviews

Box 13

Patent-Liposome

Box 14

Clinician lecture

Box 14

Course files (including some slides)-Biochem 202 May 1980

Box 14

General Files-Spyros-A; department files; course

Box 14

Alphabetical through Ishige 2003

Box 15

Alphabetical: Kuroda-Z

Box 15

Science & Society-Hargittai

Box 15

DNAX 93-Schening-Plough

Box 16

Alpha sequence: Affymetrix-Zyomyx

Box 17

Presentations Jan. 2002-Jan. 2005

Box 17

Dean Search File 1964 [CONFIDENTIAL]

Box 17

JBC MSS 1957-58

Box 17

Jardetsky appointment [CONFIDENTIAL]

Box 17

Slides/illustrations-Gene A Rep

Box 18

Presentations Jan. 2000-2001

Box 18

Nucleotic lecture

Box 18

[box not full]

Box 19

Department 1991 [folder with minutes, memos, financial statements, etc.]

Box 19

Department 1992 [folder with minutes, memos, financial statements, etc.]

Box 19

Binder: book reviews of Kornberg's Golden Helix

Box 19

Bound volume: Collected reprints 1941-1954

Box 19

Bound volume: Reprints 1953-57 Dept. of Microbiology Washington University [Kornberg and other authors]

Box 19

Bound volume: Reprints 1958-59 Dept. of Microbiology Washington University & 1959-60 Stanford University [Kornberg and other authors]

Box 19

Bound volume: Reprints of the Section on Enzymes and Metabolism, National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, NIH, 1948-52

Box 19

Binder: slides of text, graphs, charts, and specimens 1973-75 and undated

Box 20

Biochemistry 294 Winter 1992

Box 20

Department 1990 [folder with minutes, memos, financial statements, etc.]

Box 20

Table 2 Students trained by each faculty member [covers training period of the 1960s-1980s]

Box 20

Germ Stories [poems]

Box 20

Slides of text, graphs, charts, and specimens-5 binders and one stack

Box 20

Tube containing award certificate from city of Osaka, Japan (with English translation) 2004

Box 21

Reprints

Box 22

Reprints

Box 23

Correspondence, chronological

Box 24

Correspondence, chronological

Box 25

Correspondence, chronological

Box 26

Correspondence, chronological

Box 27

Correspondence, chronological

Box 28

Correspondence, chronological

Box 29

Correspondence, chronological

Box 30

Correspondence, chronological

Accession ARCH-2002-186 Additional Material

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

Physical Description: 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

Box MC

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

Box MC

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

Box MC

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

Box MC

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

Box MC

7. I. Robert Lehman Symposium Seventieth Year 1994

Box MC

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

Box MC

9. 1979 Silliman Memorial Lectures by Arthur Kornberg

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

Profiles in Science images and metadata, 2007 Sep 14

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Physical Description: (321 computer files in 4 directories)

Scope and Content Note

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.

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