Conflict of interest?

CalAlum
Wed, 13 May 2009 13:12:19 +0000

Interesting question. When Roger David Kornburg was a high-school student, his father Arthur Kornburg (Nobel-prize winning scientist) was a professor at Stanford. Instead of mentoring his own son, Arthur Kornburg encouraged/helped Roger to find a position in one of the Stanford research labs, where he worked with other scientists. This is the best scenario, in my opinion. It worked out fairly well too, since Roger Kornburg went on to win his own Nobel Prize.