Title:

Paul Berg

Creator:

Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation

Date:

[ca. November 1980]

Description:

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.)

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Photographic prints
Portraits

Subject:

Awards and Prizes

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy Source Citation:

Free Text. Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation--Albert Lasker Awards Archives, 1944-. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, Modern Manuscripts Collection (MS C 415). Box 7-6.. Free Text. This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).. URL. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/. IHM Order Number. B09718

Legacy ID:

CDBBLL

NLM ID:

101584580X177

Profiles Collection:

The Paul Berg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584580X177

Story Section:

Molecular Biology and a Changing Academic Landscape, 1980-present