Hans Kornberg#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 126 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.bu.edu/biology/people/faculty/kornberg |
Hans Kornberg passed away December 16, 2019.
Present and Previous Positions
- 1995 University Professor and Professor of Biology, Boston University, Boston (USA)
- 1982 - 1995 Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (UK)
- 1975 - 1995 Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge (UK)
- 1960 - 1975 Professor of Biochemistry, University of Leicester (UK)
- 1958 - 1960 Lecturer in Biochemistry, Worcester College, Oxford (UK)
- 1955 - 1960 Member of Staff, MRC Unit for Cell Metabolism, Oxford University (UK)
- 1953 - 1955 Commonwealth Fund Fellow, Yale University and Public Health Research Institute New York (USA)
- 1953 Ph.D. Sheffield University, Sheffield (UK)
- 1949 Graduated B.Sc. (Hons., Chemistry), Sheffield University, Sheffield (UK)
Fields of Scholarship
- Microbial metabolism, with special emphasis on study of mechanisms of carbohydrate transport and their regulation
Honours and Awards
- 1965 Fellow of The Royal Society
- 1978 Appointed Knight Bachelor
- 1986 Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- 1987 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1989 Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of London
- 1989 Member, Academia Europaea
- 1990 Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge (UK)
- 1992 Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
- 1993 Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society
- 1995 Honorary Member, Phi Beta Kappa
- 1997 Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italy)
- Honorary Degrees
- 1974 Sc.D., University of Cincinnati (USA)
- 1975 D.Sc., University of Warwick (England)
- 1979 D.Sc., University of Leicester (England)
- 1979 D.Sc., University of Sheffield (England)
- 1979 D.U., University of Essex (England
- 1980 D.Sc., University of Bath (England)
- 1984 D.Sc., University of Strathclyde (Scotland)
- 1984 M.D., University of Leipzig (Germany)
- 1994 D.Sc., University of the South Bank , London (England)
- 1995 D.Sc., University of Leeds (England)
- 1997 D.Sc., La Trobe University (Australia)
- 1999 LL.D., University of Dundee (Scotland)
