In 1959 , Roger Kornberg 's father , Arthur Kornberg , received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studies of how genetic information moves from one DNA molecule to another . Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA , `` the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription . '' His father , Arthur Kornberg , who was also a professor at Stanford University , was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 .