Paul Berg - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1980
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Paul Berg

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1980
for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA
Citizenship
United StatesUnited States
Languages
English
date of birth
6/30/1926
place of birth
Brooklyn
date of death
2/15/2023
place of death
Stanford
Lived
96 years
occupation
  • molecular biologist
  • university teacher
  • researcher
  • biochemist
  • chemist
  • biologist
field of work
  • biochemistry
educated at
  • Case Western Reserve University
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • academic major: biochemistry
    • end time: 1952
  • Abraham Lincoln High School
    • end time: 1943
  • Pennsylvania State University
    • academic degree: Bachelor of Science
    • academic major: biochemistry
    • end time: 1948
  • Clare Hall
employer
  • Stanford University
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 1992
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
    • start time: 1984
  • French Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/19/1981
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1966
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
    • start time: 1966
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1966
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1983
  • European Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2006
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 6/25/1996
doctoral student
  • Richard Calendar
  • Bill Wood
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