# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sylvy-kornberg
# Generated: 2026-09-02T07:20:57.728Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sylvy-kornberg"
name: "Sylvy Kornberg"
slug: "sylvy-kornberg"
description: "Sylvy Kornberg née Sylvia Ruth Levy was an American biochemist who carried out research on DNA replication and polyphosphate synthesis. She 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. She worked closely with her husband and research partner, Arthur Kornberg, contributing greatly to the characterization of DNA polymerization that earned him the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine."
tagline: "American biochemist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1917"
deathDate: "1986-06-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.48
  momentum:             15.32
  historical:           1.537977333333334
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  29
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvy_Kornberg"
    title: "Sylvy Kornberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76836403"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations