Did you know that seven parent-child pairs have been awarded a Nobel Prize?
One of these pairs is the father Arthur Kornberg (awarded the 1959 Medicine Prize) and his son Roger D. Kornberg (awarded the 2006 Chemistry Prize).
Here are the other six parent-child pairs:
Marie Skłodowska (Chemistry 1911, Physics 1903) and Pierre Curie (Physics 1903)
Irène Joliot-Curie (Chemistry 1935)
William Bragg (Physics 1915)
Lawrence Bragg (Physics 1915)
Niels Bohr (Physics 1922)
Aage N. Bohr (Physics 1975)
Hans von Euler-Chelpin (Chemistry 1929)
Ulf von Euler (Medicine 1970)
Arthur Kornberg (Medicine 1959)
Roger D. Kornberg (Chemistry 2006)
Manne Siegbahn (Physics 1924)
Kai M. Siegbahn (Physics 1981)
J. J. Thomson (Physics 1906)
George Paget Thomson (Physics 1937)
Picture: Father and son duo, Arthur and Roger Kornberg.
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