Nobel winner Kornberg hails his son's award
Afp, Stockholm
Arthur Kornberg, the 1959 Nobel Medicine Prize co-laureate, basked in his son Roger's Nobel chemistry honour Wednesday, saying he long thought his son deserved it, but warned a decline in US government research funding stymied important discoveries. Speaking hours after the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm that Roger Kornberg, 59, had won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for his discovery of how DNA, the genetic code, creates a message to spur a cell to make protein, his father expressed surprise at the timing, but not at the award. "I'm very happy that this honour was given by the Nobel committee -- they take their awards very seriously, and I felt for a long time that my son Roger deserved that kind of recognition. But one never knows when, because so many people are deserving," Arthur Kornberg, 88, said in a phone interview with AFP.
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