The Scientist : NewsBlog Print: Nobel keeps it in the family
The Scientist: NewsBlog:
Nobel keeps it in the family
Posted by Brendan Maher
[Entry posted at 4th October 2006 10:20 AM GMT]
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Roger Kornberg of Stanford University presumably got the call from Stockholm at 3am in California. He won a solo Nobel in Chemistry for elucidating the mechanics of transcription via the crystallization of RNA polymerase. He?s the third American life scientist to pull down a Nobel this year and the second to win the prize in his family. Father, Arthur Kornberg won the 1959 prize in Physiology or Medicine for elucidating DNA synthesis.

 

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Ignoble choice
by henry young

[Comment posted 2006-10-05 16:15:01]

There are number of scientists who should have been credited for elucidating eukaryotic transcription mechanisms. Their contributions were as important as, if not greater than, that of Kornberg.

It's a shame.




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What if?
by Phoebe

[Comment posted 2006-10-04 20:30:10]

I wonder if this will become a trend is particular scientific field as well, akin to politics (famous presidential pairs/families).




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