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Article: Son follows father with Nobel prize: BAY AREA HAS 3RD LAUREATE THIS WEEK.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
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- October 5, 2006
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Byline: Lisa M. Krieger
Oct. 5--Roger Kornberg was 12 when he first visited Stockholm, the proud eldest son of 1959 Nobel Laureate Arthur Kornberg.
He returns in December to pick up his own medal -- science's highest honor -- accompanied by his proud father. Roger Kornberg, now 59 and a professor at Stanford University's School of Medicine, on Wednesday was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Kornberg became the third Bay Area scientist in as many days to receive the prestigious award, underscoring the growing pre-eminence of the Bay Area and its research institutions among world scientific centers such as Boston and Cambridge, England. ...