Dr. Arthur Kornberg, 41-year-old Brooklyn-born scientist, and his wife, the former Sylvy R. Levy, today continued to receive congratulations from all parts of the world in connection with his being named to share the 1959 Nobel Prize for Medicine with Dr. Severo Ochoa, of the New York University College of Medicine. The prize, amounting to more than $42,000, was awarded to them for their discovery of enzymes for artificially producing some of the key substances of life. The Kornbergs have been at Leland Stanford University only since last July, when Dr. Kornbergs became a professor there, and head of the department of biochemistry.
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