10 pages paper : Paul Berg(scientist)

https://medicalgiving.stanford.edu/why-giving-matters/paul-berg

-an-uncommon-legacy.html

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This award was meant to recognize him for his research with Frederick Sanger and Waiter Gilbert on nucleic acids.

----After he completed his high school at Abraham Lincoln High School, he applied to do biochemistry at a university call Penn State University. This was because he was too young to join the navy but he later joins. In 1948 he completed his biochemistry course then join Western Reserve University for a doctorate….-------

It was in 1952 after he had taken a position of postdoctoral when he discovered a new enzyme that created nucleoside triphosphates for a nucleic acid with Wolfgang Joklik who was also postdoctoral.

It was until Berg moved to Stanford University with Kornberg to set up a new department of biochemistry when he started to shift his focus to molecular biology from classical biology. In 1967 with the help of Robert Symons and David Jackson engineered a virus that happens by splicing two DNA molecules from a tumor virus. In 1980 with Arthur Kornberg they give a hand in establishing a biotechnology research institute and Beckman center which its main aim was to connect clinical researchers with molecular biology researcher more closely. Generally, in biochemistry, Berg is one of the people who made the most significant positive changes through his extensive researches.

Biography

Abraham Lincoln High School

Penn State University 48’ (Biochemistry)

Western Reserve University 52’ (Doctorate)

Stanford University (Classical Biology)

1967: Engineered a virus that happens by splicing two DNA molecules from a tumor virus

1979: Established a biotechnology institute with Kornberg

Prospering career in biochemistry