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The Paul Berg Papers

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[Paul Berg]
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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.)
Number of Image Pages:
1 (284,890 Bytes)
Date Supplied:
ca. November 1980
Creator:
[Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation]
Source:
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.
This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).
URL: http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/
IHM Order Number: B09718
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This item is in the public domain. It may be used without permission.
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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
Awards and Prizes
Exhibit Category:
Molecular Biology and a Changing Academic Landscape, 1980-present
Unique Identifier:
CDBBLL
Document Type:
Photographic prints
Portraits
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Physical Condition:
Good
Folder: [Selected photographs gathered from the Images from the History of Medicine]
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2008-03-20
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