History Repeats

In 1959, Arthur Kornberg, was awarded noble prize in medicine jointly for the “discovery of the mechanisms in biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid.” Forty seven years later, in 2006, his son, Roger D. Kornberg, is awarded the nobel prize in Chemistry “for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription.” Both father and son are affiliated to Stanford University.

I can imagine the excitement at the Kornberg's residence.