Father-son event.It is ironic that the father of the current recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Swedish: Nobelpriset i kemi) is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the six Nobel Prizes. The first prize was awarded in 1901. won the prize in medicine ("Nobel prizes Nobel Prizes Year Peace Chemistry Physics Physiology or Medicine Literature 1901 J. H. Dunant Frédéric Passy J. H. van't Hoff W. C. Roentgen E. A. von Behring R. F. A. Sully-Prudhomme 1902 Élie Ducommun C. A. recognize things great and small," SN: 10/7/06, p. 229; "Details of molecular machinery gain Nobel," SN: 10/14/06, p. 246). Looking at the research of 2006 winner Roger D. Kornberg Roger David Kornberg (born March 24 1947) is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. , his prize should have been awarded in medicine. For his father, Arthur Kornberg Arthur Kornberg (born March 3, 1918) is an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)" together with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University. , the prize in 1959 should have been in chemistry. The good news is that they both deserved this prestigious award. NELSON MARANS, SILVER SPRING, MD. |
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