Paul Berg, born June 30, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He 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.

External links

• Curriculum vitae (http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1980/berg-cv.html) from the Nobel Prize website
• 2001 article about Berg (http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2001/october3/berg-103.html) from a Stanford University website