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Nobel Laureate a "Regular" at Hebrew U.

[Jerusalem Post] Judy Siegel and Tom Hope - Prof. Roger Kornberg, the Stanford University biologist who was named on Wednesday as this year's Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, just spent four months at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is a fellow at the Alexander Silberman Institute for Life Sciences. Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize for medicine nearly 50 years ago, has been a visiting professor at Hebrew University every summer since 1986. His Israeli-born wife, Yahli, is the daughter of the late historian and Knesset clerk Netanel Lorch, and their three children are fluent Hebrew speakers.
2006-10-06 01:00:00
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