Pictured on a nondenominated USA commemorative postage stamp in the American Scientists series, issued 16 June 2011. The face value of the stamp on day of issue was 44¢.
Won the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, with Arthur Kornberg, "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid [RNA]".