Agriculture and Natural Resources, Institute of (IANR)
Date of this Version
2004
Abstract
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Paul Berg attended New York City schools, served in the United States Navy, and earned his baccalaureate degree in biochemistry from Pennsylvania State College and his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from Western Reserve University. He served as a faculty member at Washington University School of Medicine and at the Stanford University School of Medicine where he also served as Chair of the Department of Biochemistry. Currently, he is Cahill Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at the Stanford University Medical Center and Director Emeritus of Stanford's Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine.