Paul Berg Paul Berg

Contributor(s): Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Publication: Produced: [ca. November 1980] Language(s): No linguistic content Format: Still image Subject(s): Awards and Prizes Genre(s): Archival Materials Photographic prints Portraits Abstract: CAPTION READS: WINNER OF A 1980 ALBERT LASKER BASIC MEDICAL RESEARCH AWARD. Dr. Paul Berg (Ph.D.), Willson Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine (Stanford, California), who is a winner of a 1980 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, it was announced today (Thursday, November 20, 1980) by Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, President of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation.. Dr. Berg won his Award for his key, historic achievements which helped to make recombinant DNA a brilliant reality that has inaugurated a new age of biomedical and industrial promise.. Dr. Berg shares the $15,000 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award with three other California scientists. (They are Dr. Stanley N. Cohen (M.D.) and Dr. A. Dale Kaiser (Ph.D.) of Stanford University; and Dr. Herbert W. Boyer (Ph.D.) of University of California, San Francisco.) Copyright: The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information) Extent: 1 pages NLM Unique ID: 101584580X177 (See in Profiles in Science) Profiles in Science ID: CDBBLL Permanent Link: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584580X177 Archival Collection: The Paul Berg Papers (Profiles in Science)