Saturday, October 08, 2022

Nobel Prizes are Hereditary

There are now eight example of parent-child Nobel science prize winners.

Joseph John Thomson (Physics 1906)
George Paget Thomson (Physics 1937)

Arthur Kornberg (awarded the 1959 Medicine Prize)
Roger D. Kornberg (awarded the 2006 Chemistry Prize)

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)

Manne Siegbahn (Physics 1924)
Kai Siegbahn (Physics 1981)

Sune Bergström (Medicine 1982)
Svante Pääbo (Medicine 2022)

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