Stockholm: When American Roger Kornberg was named for the 2006 Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for showing how cells copy genes -- a process essential to how cells develop and to life itself -- he became the eighth son of a Nobel laureate to win the prestigious award.
Kornberg's prize came 47 years after he watched his father, Arthur, awarded the medicine Nobel in Stockholm for gene work. It also crowned a week of success for US scientists, who have swept all the 2006 Nobel science awards so far.
The Swedish Academy of Sciences, which makes the $1.36 million award, said Roger Kornberg's research into how ribonucleic acid, RNA, moves genetic information around the body was of 'fundamental medical importance'.
Before Kornberg, there were seven similar instances when parent and child have both become Nobel laureates.
Following is a list of such winners:
Marie and Pierre Curie (shared Physics 1903) -- Irene Joliot Curie (shared Chemistry 1935) - France
J.J. Thomson (Physics 1906) -- George Paget Thomson (shared Physics 1937) - United Kingdom
William Henry Bragg & Lawrence Bragg (shared Physics 1915) - United Kingdom
Niels Bohr (Physics 1922) --- Aage N. Bohr (shared Physics 1975) - Denmark
Manne Siegbahn (Physics 1924) --- Kai M. Siegbahn (shared Physics 1981) - Sweden
Hans von Euler-Chelpin (shared Chemistry 1929) --- Ulf von Euler (shared Medicine 1970) - Sweden
Arthur Kornberg (shared Medicine 1959) --- Roger D. Kornberg (Chemistry 2006) - United States
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