he was in his eighties, Kornberg continued to conduct research full-time at Department of Biochemistry at Stanford. He died on October 26, 2007, at Stanford Hospital from respiratory failure. References External links including the Nobel Lecture on December 11, 1959 The Biologic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid Stanford University page Obituary in The Independent. November 3, 2007. Obituary in The Times. November 7, 2007. Obituary in New York Times. October 28, 2007. The Arthur Kornberg Papers - Profiles in Science, National Library of Medicine Never A Dull Enzyme Autobiography by Arthur Kornberg, July 1989. Arthur Kornberg, Nobel Laureate and Towering Biomedical Scientist, Dies at 89 National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir 1918 births 2007 deaths Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine American Nobel laureates Nobel laureates affiliated with Missouri Abraham Lincoln High School (Brooklyn) alumni American biochemists Medical personnel for the United States Coast Guard Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization American Orthodox Jews Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Jewish American scientists Jewish chemists Stanford University School of Medicine faculty University of Rochester alumni City College of New York alumni National Medal of Science laureates Foreign Members of the Royal Society Scientists from New York City Washington University in St. Louis faculty American people of Polish-Jewish descent New York University Grossman School of Medicine alumni Columbia University alumni United States Coast Guard officers Members of the American Philosophical Society