SUMC in the News (10/05/06)

Print media coverage

New York Times, 10/05/06
47 years after father, son wins a Nobel, too
Roger Kornberg, the Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor in Medicine, was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry yesterday for his work in understanding how DNA is converted into RNA, a process known as transcription. This article discusses his work and mentions that his father, Arthur, the Emma Pfeiffer Merner Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus, shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Similar articles appear in the Jerusalem Post, Los Angeles Times, Oakland Tribune, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, The Times (London), USA Today and Washington Post; an article was also prepared by ScienceNOW Daily News. Philip Pizzo, medical school dean, is quoted in the San Jose Mercury News article; Andrew Fire, professor of pathology and of genetics, is quoted in the Oakland Tribune piece.

San Francisco Chronicle, 10/05/06
Brainy Bay Area yields 3 Nobels
Three Bay Area scientists - including Roger Kornberg and Andrew Fire - received Nobel Prizes this week. This article discusses the high-caliber work being done at Stanford, Berkeley and UCSF, and the fact that these winners become the latest in a long line of brilliant winners affiliated with those universities. Nobel laureate Paul Berg, the Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor of Cancer Research, is also referenced in the piece.

Associated Press, 10/05/06
Science educators happy over Nobel sweep
A total of five Americans won Nobels in medicine, physics and chemistry this week - the first all-American club of science laureates since 1983. The two Stanford winners aren't referenced, but this article may be of interest to readers.

Broadcast media coverage

Newshour with Jim Lehrer (PBS), 10/04/06
Roger and Arthur Kornberg were interviewed during a live segment; they were also both featured in a segment on All Things Considered (NPR).

CNN Headline News, 10/04/06
Nobel Prize recipient Roger Kornberg was mentioned during a segment; he was also interviewed for an Associated Press video piece that appears on New York Times' website. Mentions of Kornberg's win also aired on TV stations across the country.

KNTV-TV, 10/04/06
Video is available for this segment on Roger Kornberg's Nobel Prize; similar segments also aired on KPIX-TV and KTVU-TV.

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