Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist
Paul Berg
American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926-2023)
Paul Bergwas 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.
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Paul Bergwas 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. The award recognized their contributions to basic research involving nucleic acids, especially recombinant DNA.
Berg received his undergraduate education at Penn State University, where he majored in biochemistry. He received his PhD in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University in 1952. Berg worked as a professor at Washington University School of Medicine and Stanford University School of Medicine, in addition to serving as the director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine.
In addition to the Nobel Prize, Berg was presented with the National Medal of Science in 1983 and the National Library of Medicine Medal in 1986. Berg was a member of the Board of Sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.
Paul BergAmerican biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926-2023)
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But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
Paul BergAmerican biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926-2023)
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By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.
Paul BergAmerican biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926-2023)
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With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
Paul BergAmerican biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926-2023)
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Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.
Paul BergAmerican biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926-2023)
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But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
Paul BergAmerican biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926-2023)
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Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.
Paul BergAmerican biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926-2023)
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Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.
Paul BergAmerican biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926-2023)
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By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.
Paul BergAmerican biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926-2023)
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Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
Paul BergAmerican biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926-2023)
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Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.
Paul BergAmerican biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926-2023)
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That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Paul BergAmerican biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926-2023)
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Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.
Paul BergAmerican biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926-2023)