Title:
A Stanford professor's career in biochemistry, science politics, and the biotechnology industry : oral history transcript
/ 2000
Creator/Contributor:
Berg, Paul, 1926-, creator, interviewee.
Creator/Contributor:
Hughes, Sally Smith, interviewer.
Creator/Contributor:
Program in the History of the Biological Sciences and Biotechnology
Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.
Abstract:
Childhood and education, New York City; higher education, New York, Pennsylvania State University, Washington University,
St. Louis; postdoctoral research with Arthur Kornberg and Herman Kalckar; research on amino acid activation, tumor viruses,
recombinant DNA; Asilomar I conference (1973), recombinant DNA biohazards controversy, Asilomar Conference on Recombinant
DNA Molecules (1975); commercialization of recombinant DNA and molecular biology; Nobel Prize, 1980; DNAX Research Institute
of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Inc., relations with Schering-Plough; Beckman Center for Molecular & Genetic Medicine, Stanford
Medical School; Stanley N. Cohen, Herbert W. Boyer, Peter Lobban, James D. Watson, John Morrow, Joshua Lederberg, and other
scientists.
Date:
2000 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Stanford University. -- Department of Biochemistry.
Biochemists -- California -- Interviews
Recombinant DNA -- Research -- History
Molecular biology -- Research -- History
Oncogenic viruses -- Research -- History
Biochemistry -- Research -- History
Biotechnology industries -- California
Note:
Paul Berg ; with introductions by Daniel E. Koshland and Charles Yanofsky. Interviews conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 1997.
Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Part of the Program in the History of the Biosciences and Biotechnology.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3174 C:1-12.
Also available online.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Volume includes index.
Type:
biography
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 v. (xiv, 249 p.) : port. ; 29 cm.
12 sound cassettes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z0w70
BANC MSS 2001/115 c
Phonotape 3174 C:1-12
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.