= Such Stupid Things =

We were discussing this in lab, and does anyone else agree that the medicine and chemistry Nobels should have been switched this year? I mean, Kornberg's work is important and all, but I don't really see what's so new and exciting about it from a chemistry perspective. He crystallized some large, difficult proteins, but didn't they just give out an award three years ago to Rod McKinnon for crystallizing a large, difficult protein? What gives? RNAi, however, is just plain cool however you look at it.

Anyhow, there's a whole mess of jaded actual chemists out there waiting for their day in the sun. So why not just set up a biology Nobel and get it over with?

Also of note, Kornberg got his PhD from the same thesis advisor as my boss, thus making him my academic uncle. Or something like that.