S—DAILY PALO ALTO TIMES, TUESDAY, DEC. 15,

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“PRINCESS DESIREE WITH DR. KORNBERG

 

Five Kornbergs participate in festival

 

YOUNGEST KORNBERG JOINS FESTIVITIES

 

Sweden fetes Nobel Prize winners

‘Dr. Arthur Kornherg’s
wife and three sons, who
accompanied him to Stock-
holm for last Thursday’s
presentation of the 1959
Nobel prizes, joined in the
festivities at the Nobel
Prize Festival Banquet
held in the Golden Banquet
Room at Stockholm’s city
hall.

Nine-year-old Kenneth,
the youngest of the Korn-
bergs’ sons, was also the
youngest participant in the

festival. He is pictured
waltzing with Mrs. Olle
Thunberg, wife of a Swed-
ish. official. His brothers
are Roger, who is 12, and
Thomas, 11.

At the banquet Dr.
Kornberg was seated next

to Sweden’s Princess De-—

siree, whose grandparents,
King Gustav VI Adolf and
Queen Louise, presided at
the festivities.

The king and queen also
honored the prize recip-

 

ients Friday evening at a
banquet in the royal pal-
ace,

Dr. Kornberg, professor
and executive head of the
department of biochemis-
try at Stanford University

“School of Medicine, shares

the prize for medicine with
Dr,. Severo Ochoa of New
York University.

Today the Kornbergs
were to fly to Copenhagen,

-where they will stay until

Friday. They planned to

visit Spain and’ southern
Italy before leaving Paris
by plane Dec. 29, for New
York City.

After several days in
New York they will spend
some time with Mrs. Korn-
berg’s family in Rochester,
N.Y., then return to the
Midpeninsula Jan. 2.

Mrs. Kornberg is a re-
search associate in her |
husband’s laboratory and
has been co-author of re-
search articles with him.