Sylvy Ruth Levy Kornberg

Born: 1917

Died: 1986

Country of Birth: USA

Nationality: USA

University of Rochester

Field of Study: Biochemistry

Institution/Corporation: National Cancer Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford University

Achievements: carried out research on DNA replication and polyphosphate synthesis; discovered and characterized polyphosphate kinase (PPK), an enzyme that helps build long chains of phosphate groups called polyphosphate (PolyP) that play a variety of metabolic and regulatory functions;