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Paul Timmy Berg (born
June 30,
1926 in
Brooklyn,
New York,
U.S.) is an
American biochemist and
professor emeritus at
Stanford University. He graduated from
Abraham Lincoln High School in 1943, received his B.S. in biochemistry from
Penn State University in 1948 and
Ph.D. in biochemistry from
Case Western Reserve University in 1952. In 1980 he shared half of the
Nobel Prize for Chemistry with the team of
Walter Gilbert and
Frederick Sanger. All three were recognized for their important contributions to basic research in
nucleic acids. His studies as a postgraduate involved the use of radioisotope tracers in intermediary metabolism. This resulted in the understanding of how foodstuffs are converted to cellular materials, through the use of isotopic carbons or heavy nitrogen atoms. Paul Berg's doctorate paper is now known as the conversion of
formic acid,
formaldehyde and
methanol to fully reduced states of methyl groups in
methionine. He was also one of the first to demonstrate that folic acid and B12 cofactors had roles in the processes mentioned.
Berg is Professor Emeritus at Stanford and ceased conducting research in 2000 . He is also currently the Chairman of Whitehead Institute Board of Advisory Scientists at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology(External Link
).
Prof. Berg is a member of the Board of Sponsors of The
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (External Link). He was also an organizer of the
Asilomar conference on recombinant DNA in 1975. The previous year, Berg and other scientists had called for a voluntary
moratorium on certain
recombinant DNA research until they could evaluate the risks. That influential conference did evaluate the potential hazards and set guidelines for biotechnology research. It can be seen as an early application of the
precautionary principle.
Berg was also awarded the
National Medal of Science in
1983, by
Ronald Reagan.
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