Letter from Paul Berg to Robert L. Sinsheimer
- Title:
- Letter from Paul Berg to Robert L. Sinsheimer
- Creator:
-
Berg, Paul
Stanford University. Medical Center - Recipient:
- Sinsheimer, Robert and California Institute of Technology
- Date:
- 30 December 1976
- Description:
- This critical commentary by Paul Berg highlights the conflicting and sometimes contradictory attitudes towards the new technology of genetic engineering among many scientists in the 1970s. In this letter, Berg criticizes Sinsheimer, who visibly campaigned against recombinant DNA research as too dangerous, but also sought funds for a containment lab for that very research at his own institution (the California Institute of Technology).
- Original Repository:
- Library of Congress. Maxine Singer Papers
- Location:
- Box: 33. Folder: 3
- Rights:
- Reproduced with permission of Paul Berg.
- Genre:
- Letters (correspondence)
- Subject:
- DNA, Recombinant
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Relation:
- A Statement, 1976 Letter from Maxine Singer to Robert L. Sinsheimer, 1977
- Language:
- English
- Legacy Source Citation:
- Original Repository. Library of Congress. Maxine Singer Papers. 12494
- Legacy ID:
- DJBBJB
- NLM ID:
- 101584644X118
- Profiles Collection:
- The Maxine Singer Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584644X118
- Story Section:
- Risk, Regulation, and Scientific Citizenship: The Controversy over Recombinant DNA Research