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I was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on October 29, 1920 of Spanish-Jewish ancestry. My father, a self-made business man, was a textile merchant and importer. He was born in Spanish Morocco, whereas my mother was born and raised in French Algeria and brought up in the French culture. When I was five years old, my…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Georg Klein of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Even the longest journey starts with a single step, the old Chinese have said. The first step of the long journey that has led the three Laureates in Medicine to us tonight was…

My parents were both New Englanders, though my father was born in Minnesota where his father had moved from Massachusetts to join a frontier community. My father moved east as a young man, and for a number of years was YMCA secretary in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Subsequently he invented and worked in the application of a…

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Asilomar and recombinant DNA by Paul Berg1980 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry26 August 2004 Introduction Advances in the life sciences, particularly in biomedicine, are increasingly being scrutinized and their acceptance questioned. Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science…

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14 October 1980 has decided to award the 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry by one half to Professor Paul Berg, Stanford University, USA, for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA, and the other half jointly to Professor Walter Gilbert, Harvard University, USA, and Professor Frederick Sanger, Cambridge…