Paul Berg's Profile
Brief about Paul Berg: By info that we know Paul Berg was born at 1926-06-30. And also Paul Berg is American Scientist.
Some Paul Berg's quotes. Goto "Paul Berg's quotation" section for more.With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
Tags: Learned, Lost, TimeBy 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.
Tags: Career, Research, TimeBut I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
Tags: Effort, Felt, WarLooking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
Tags: Education, Looking, RealizeBut the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
Tags: Events, Far, LessBy 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.
Tags: Act, Biology, MakingFears 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.
Tags: Creating, Human, KindsMoreover, 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.
Tags: Moving, Nature, ScienceNovel 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.
Tags: Human, Science, SocietyParadoxically, 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.
Tags: Exists, Serious, TreatmentThat 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.
Tags: Chemistry, Technology, WorkRelated topics
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