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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980

"for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA"
"for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids"
Paul Berg Walter Gilbert Frederick Sanger
Paul Berg Walter Gilbert Frederick Sanger
half 1/2 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize
USA USA United Kingdom
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Harvard University, Biological Laboratories
Cambridge, MA, USA
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, United Kingdom
b. 1926 b. 1932 b. 1918
 
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