NICE GENES

　　For Kornberg, the prize meant living up to his father's example: Arthur Kornberg won a Nobel for medicine in 1959. The Kornbergs are in good company--seven other sets of parents and children have won science's highest honor. The most famous was also the most prodigious: Marie and Pierre Curie won in 1903 (Marie won another on her own in 1911); then daughter Irène Joliot-Curie, along with her husband Frédéric Joliot, won in 1935. Who wouldn't pay to get a piece of those genes?

　　优质的基因

　　对科恩伯格来说，获奖意味着无愧于父亲树立的楷模：亚瑟·科恩伯格1959年获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖：科恩伯格家族不乏同伴——还有七组父母和子女也曾赢得自然科学的最高荣誉，其中最著名的家族也是获奖次数最多的：玛丽和皮埃尔·居里夫妇1903年获得诺贝尔奖(1911年玛丽又单独获奖);其后女儿伊伦·约里奥—居里与丈夫弗雷德里克·约里奥一道于1935年获得诺贝尔奖。谁不愿意掏钱来换取一点这样的基因呢?