A Stanford professor's career in biochemistry, science politics, and the biotechnology industry
Berg, Paul,
1926-
creator
Hughes, Sally Smith.
contributor
Program in the History of the Biosciences and Biotechnology.
contributor
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
contributor
text
book
ENG
Part of the Program in the History of the Biosciences and Biotechnology.
Childhood and education, New York City; higher education, New York, Pennsylvania State University, Washington University, St. Louis; postdoctoral research with Arthur Kornberg and Herman Kalckar; research on amino acid activation, tumor viruses, recombinant DNA; Asilomar I conference (1973), recombinant DNA biohazards controversy, Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules (1975); commercialization of recombinant DNA and molecular biology; Nobel Prize, 1980; DNAX Research Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Inc., relations with Schering-Plough; Beckman Center for Molecular & Genetic Medicine, Stanford Medical School; Stanley N. Cohen, Herbert W. Boyer, Peter Lobban, James D. Watson, John Morrow, Joshua Lederberg, and other scientists.
Supplemental material : | oral history transcript with corrections.
Biochemistry
Biochemists
Biotechnology industries
California
Dept. of Biochemistry
History
Interviews
Molecular biology
Oncogenic viruses
Oral histories
Recombinant DNA
Research
Stanford University
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