Roger D. Kornberg
Roger David Kornberg
American biochemist.
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: for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription : för hans studier av den molekylära grunden för eukaryot transkription : 10,000,000 Swedish krona
: Research on the structure and expression of genes in eukaryotic organisms. His major contributions include the discovery of the structure of the nucleosome, the basic repeating unit of chromatin.
: For his seminal contributions in biological and structural chemistry: (1) the discovery, basic structure and function of nucleosome; (2) the discovery of the multiprotein Mediator of transcriptional regulation; and (3) the structures of the giant RNA polymerase II transcription initiation and elongation complexes. 
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