Korn·berg 
(kôrnbûrg′), Arthur 1918-2007.
(kôrnbûrg′), Arthur 1918-2007. American biochemist who shared a 1959 Nobel Prize for work on the biological synthesis of DNA. His son Roger David Kornberg (born 1947) won a 2006 Nobel Prize for his studies on the process of transcription from DNA to RNA in eukaryotes.