Sylvy Kornberg with her husband, Arthur Kornberg, at his Stanford University lab on the day he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1959.COURTESY OF KENNETH KORNBERG
This April, The Scientist was searching for the name of an unidentified woman featured in a photo with Jonathan Hartwell, an organic chemist who worked at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The NCI was unable identify her, so we put out a call on social media to see if any of our readers could. A few weeks later, we heard back from architect Kenneth Kornberg—the person in the photo, he wrote, was his mother, Sylvy R. Levy Kornberg, a biochemist who worked with Hartwell at the NCI. She also conducted research at a number of universities, and contributed to work that eventually led to a Nobel prize.
Sylvy Ruth Levy was born in 1917 and grew up in Rochester, New York. “I know that she ...
