Have you about the Nobel winners who started a sperm bank in CA?
Were they the first to start the bank, or did they win the prize for having an innovative way of running the bank?
I'm not certain. I saw a documentary about some of the kids that came from their sperm donations.
It's interesting because there are actually laws in some areas that prohibit the use of donor sperm after the donor has died?
I don't know if they were dead or not.  One family had three children from two different donors. Two are 'genius' and one is autistic.
I wonder if it was genetic or due to the procedure used to fertilize the egg
I don't think anybody knows the answer to that question.
Egg donation
Egg donation is the process by which a woman donates eggs to enable another woman to conceive as part of an assisted reproduction treatment or for biomedical research. For assisted reproduction purposes, egg donation typically involves in vitro fertilization technology, with the eggs being fertilized in the laboratory; more rarely, unfertilized eggs may be frozen and stored for later use. Egg donation is a third party reproduction as part of assisted reproductive technology.
In the United States, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine has issued guidelines for these
dubbed the "Nobel prize sperm bank" by media reports at the time. The only contributor who became known publicly was William Shockley, Nobel laureate in physics.
Management.
Robert Graham managed the bank until his death in February 1997 and the responsibilities were passed to Floyd Kimble, a businessman from Ohio who had shown interest in the bank. At the time of Graham's death, the bank claimed to have produced 229 children, none of them from sperm donated from Graham's initial focus, Nobel Prize winners.