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Raymond Chamberlain

Raymond George Chamberlain, 95, a resident of Palo Alto, died Oct. 11.

He was born and raised in Chicago, Ill. He served in the U.S. Navy as a sharpshooter and radio operator, later working for the U.S. Postal Service.

He was an avid reader and active in bridge groups while living in northern San Diego County. He was a resident of Carlsbad and Oceanside for more than 40 years.

He is survived by his daughter, Lee Hanson of Palo Alto; son, Michael of Annapolis, Md.; and four grandchildren.

Burial will be in Oceanside, beside Marie Chamberlain, his wife of 68 years.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the "Kids to Kids" project through Heifer International, www.hiefer.org.

John Huberty

John Arthur Huberty, 89, a resident of Woodside, died Oct. 2.

He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, then attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., and received a degree in architecture. He attended the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and in 1943 earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

He entered military service during World War II, serving as a commissioned Naval Reserve Officer stationed at the Naval Weapons Depot in McAlester, Okla.

After the war, he was a professor of architectural design at the University of Texas, Austin.

In the late 1940s he moved to San Francisco. There he met Mary Helen Gasaway and they married in 1950. In 1953 he relocated his family from San Francisco to Woodside.

He was a prolific Bay Area architect and builder. He was responsible for numerous housing and civic projects, including Palo Alto's Main Library.

He was the general contractor for many Bay Area banks, telephone exchanges and motels and was the founder of several construction and development entities, including Perma Construction Company and Hub Pacific, Inc., both based in Menlo Park.

In retirement he maintained a keen interest in history, gardening, antique cartography, space and astrophysics. His philanthropy focused on the Rensselaer Hirsch Observatory.

He is survived by his sons, John William Huberty of Hilton Head, S.C., and Grant Kendall Huberty of Woodside; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations be provided to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., www.plannedparenthood.org; Peninsula Open Space Trust, www.openspacetrust.org; or New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity, www.habitat-nola.org.

Arthur Kornberg

Arthur Kornberg, 89, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize for medicine, died Oct. 26 of respiratory failure. He was professor emeritus of medicine at Stanford and a resident of Portola Valley.

He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry and biology from City College of New York in 1937 and his medical degree from the University of Rochester in 1941.

He worked at the National Institutes of Health from 1942 to 1953 and then taught at Washington University in St. Louis. He came to Stanford in 1959 as chair of the new Department of Biochemistry.

He shared the 1959 Nobel Prize for his test-tube synthesis of DNA. Although James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the model of how DNA is replicated, Kornberg discovered the actual chemical model of how DNA gets constructed in a human cell.

He liked to refer to his scientific career as a "love affair with enzymes."

He authored several books, including "Germ Stories," a children's book due to be published Nov. 15.

One of his sons, Roger Kornberg, shared his father's love of science. A professor of structural biology at Stanford, Roger won the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

He is survived by his wife, Carolyn Frey Dixon Kornberg of Portola Valley, whom he married in 1998. He was previously married to Charlene Walsh Levering Kornberg, who died in 1995.

He is also survived by sons, Roger, a Stanford professor, Thomas, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, Kenneth, an architect and founder of Kornberg Associates; and eight grandchildren.

Jacob Rubin

Jacob Rubin, 88, a longtime resident of Palo Alto, died Oct. 24.

He was born in Poland. He immigrated to the United States in 1939 and served in the U.S. Army.

He received his PhD from University of California, Berkeley in soil physics. A founder of the U.S. National Water-Quality Assessment Program, he made leading contributions to his field at the U.S. Geological Survey, Stanford University, the Agricultural Research Center and Hebrew University in Israel.

In his avocation of genealogy research, he compiled numerous family trees and histories, sending them to family and museums worldwide.

He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Ruth Gologorsky Rubin of Palo Alto; sons, Rami Rubin of Cupertino and Oren Rubin of Piedmont; daughter, Talia Shaham of Palo Alto; and nine grandchildren.