var items = new Array (new ImageMetaData('Gunnar Oquist, permanent secretary of the Royal Academy of Sience (L) and Professor Lars Thelander announce the Nobel prize winner for chemistry in Stockholm October 4, 2006. American Roger Kornberg, the son of a Nobel laureate, won the 2006 Nobel prize for chemistry on Wednesday for describing gene copying in cells, which can give insight into illnesses such as cancer and heart disease.  DENMARK OUT  NORWAY OUT SWEDEN OUT  REUTERS/Bertil Ericson/Scanpix  (SWEDEN)','http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Photos/061004/061004_nobel_chemistry_hlrg_6a.jpg','8:19 a.m. ET, 10/4/06','Bertil Ericson / Scanpix Via Reu / Reuters','REUTERS',15127044));