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A Stanford professor's career in biochemistry, science politics, and the biotechnology industry

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A Stanford professor's career in biochemistry, science politics, and the biotechnology industry

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Berg, Paul, 1926-

Hughes, Sally Smith.
Program in the History of the Biosciences and Biotechnology.
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.

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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.