Hans Kornberg
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| Born | Hans Leo Kornberg 14 January 1928 Germany |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Fields | Biochemistry |
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| Alma mater | University of Sheffield |
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Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, FRS (born 14 January 1928) is a German-born British biochemist. He was Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Cambridge from 1975 to 1995, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 1982 to 1995.
Kornberg was born in 1928 in Germany of Jewish parents. In 1939 he left Nazi Germany (although his parents could not), and moved to the care of an uncle in Yorkshire. Initially he went to a school for German refugees, but later to a private school and Wakefield Grammar School.
On leaving school he became a junior laboratory technician for Dr Hans Krebs at the University of Sheffield who encouraged him to study further and apply for a scholarship at the same university. He graduated with a BSc Honours in Chemistry in 1949. His interest moved to biochemistry and he studied in the Faculty of Medicine, receiving a PhD degree in 1953 for a thesis entitled Studies on gastric urease.
A Commonwealth Fund Exchange Fellowship of the Harkness Foundation enabled him to travel to the USA and work in several biochemistry laboratories. He then returned to the UK where his mentor Hans Krebs had moved to Oxford University and offered him a post there. This partnership produced a paper in Nature, concerning their discovery of the Glyoxylate cycle, and also a joint book which was the first major publication on biological thermodynamics.
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