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by goethes_kind 614 days ago
If this was politics, "impressive" wouldn't be the adjective used.
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Especially when one factors in how Nobels are nominated and voted - previous laureates have a strong say. This is why the same themes keep getting rewarded over and over again: GPCRs, sensory systems, Drosophila, microscopy, regulation of gene expression - while others go repeatedly unrecognized: sequencing, evolutionary biology, etc.
umm Svante Paabo?
Paabo’s dad was a Nobel laureate.

He was born through an extramarital affair of his father, Swedish biochemist Sune Bergström (1916–2004), who, like his son, became a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (in 1982). Pääbo is his mother's only child; he has via his father's marriage a half-brother (also born in 1955).

I'm not sure where you're going with that, but Svante is an outstanding scientist and won the prize for his work in DNA sequencing + evolutionary biology.
Referring to an ancient genomics prize which is mostly about high-quality sample prep that Svaante Paabo no doubt pioneered as DNA seq + evol bio is quite the stretch when a prize wasn’t awarded for the human genome project, GWAS, 454/Solexa, microarrays etc.
Science uses an apprenticeship model so it's not surprising that you would see a sort of lineage or connected network of outstanding work.

Anyone who's had a great mentor knows how impactful they can be on the trajectory of your career just in terms of how much more effective you can be.