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Paul Berg (June 30, 1926 – February 15, 2023) was an American biochemist and professor at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980, along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger .
Paul Berg (born June 30, 1926, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 15, 2023, Stanford, California) was an American biochemist whose development of recombinant DNA techniques won him a share (with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger) of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1980.
Feb 15, 2023 · The ability to artificially manipulate DNA opens the way to creating organisms with new characteristics. In conjunction with his studies of the tumor virus SV40, in 1972, Paul Berg succeeded in inserting DNA from a bacterium into the virus' DNA.
Mar 20, 2023 · Paul Berg was the first researcher to incorporate DNA from one species into the genetic material of another. In so doing, he invented one of the most powerful tools in modern biology and the...
Feb 21, 2023 · Paul Berg, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who ushered in the era of genetic engineering in 1971 by successfully combining DNA from two different organisms, died on Wednesday at his home on the...
Feb 17, 2023 · Credited with sparking the field of genetic engineering, Stanford Medicine biochemist Paul Berg shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry for creating the first recombinant DNA molecule.
Mar 16, 2023 · Paul Berg, the pioneering biochemist who invented recombinant DNA technology, died on 15 February at age 96. Paul, whose work made genetic engineering possible, was a bridge between the traditional world of biochemistry and metabolism and the modern world of molecular biology.
Feb 15, 2023 · The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980 was divided, one half awarded to Paul Berg "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA", the other half jointly to Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids"
Paul Berg, Ph.D., the founding director of the Beckman Center, and the Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor of Cancer Research Emeritus at the Stanford University School of Medicine, passed away on February 15, 2023, at the age of 96.
Nov 11, 2023 · On February 15, 2023, the world lost an extraordinary man, Paul Berg, Nobel Laureate and Robert and Vivian Cahill Professor of Cancer Research Emeritus at Stanford School of Medicine.
