Thomas B. Kornberg

American biochemist

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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.

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