From 1980-1999 the 'Repository for Germinal Choice' tried to help families create 'super kids' using the sperm of Nobel prize winners.
After only one Nobel laureate agreed to participate, the field was widened to include other geniuses and athletes. Overall 215 babies were born as a result.
The bank was closely associated with the eugenic ideals of its founder Robert Clark Graham. It stocked only sperm from white donors and would allow only white, married heterosexual women to use the sperm to conceive.
IFL Science looks back at the controversial initiative, and asks: what happened to the children of the Nobel sperm bank?
