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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 States United 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
educated at
  • Pennsylvania State University
    • academic degree: Bachelor of Science
    • academic major: biochemistry
    • end time: 1948
  • Case Western Reserve University
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • academic major: biochemistry
    • end time: 1952
  • Clare Hall
  • Abraham Lincoln High School
    • end time: 1943
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1966
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1983
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Society of London
field of work
  • biochemistry
occupation
  • chemist
  • researcher
  • biochemist
  • molecular biologist
  • biologist
  • university teacher
doctoral student
  • Richard Calendar
  • Bill Wood
employer
  • Stanford University
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