Paul Berg
American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926–2023)
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Lived 1926–2023, aged 97United States
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Paul Berg grew up in Brooklyn, studied biochemistry at Penn State, and earned his PhD from Case Western Reserve in 1952. He taught at Washington University School of Medicine before moving to Stanford, where he ran the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine. His lab pioneered recombinant DNA technology — splicing genetic material from different organisms — work that won him the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The breakthrough also prompted Berg to organize the Asilomar Conference in 1975, where scientists voluntarily set safety guidelines for gene-splicing experiments before governme…
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