PAUL BERG

Paul Berg (b. 1926 in New York City) is Cahill Professor in Cancer Research in the Department of Biochemistry and Director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980 “for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA.” This was a shared Nobel Prize, the other half being awarded jointly to Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger “for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequence in nucleic acids.”…