# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-b-kornberg
# Generated: 2026-09-02T08:17:17.349Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-b-kornberg"
name: "Thomas B. Kornberg"
slug: "thomas-b-kornberg"
description: "Thomas Bill Kornberg is an American biochemist who was the first person to purify and characterise DNA polymerase I, DNA polymerase II and DNA polymerase III. He is currently a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, and is working on Drosophila melanogaster development."
tagline: "American biochemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Kornberg_presidential_lecture_(49136436047).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.405364
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  46
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_B._Kornberg"
    title: "Thomas B. Kornberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B0"
    title: "トーマス・コーンバーグ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7787257"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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