Paul Berg

Prix

1. 1980

   Prix international Canada Gairdner

   Biologie

   In recognition of his contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms of protein synthesis and of the interplay of viral and cellular genes in regulating growth and division.

2. 1980

   Prix Lasker — Prix Albert Lasker pour la recherche médicale fondamentale

   Biologie

   For historic achievements that made recombinant DNA a brilliant reality, and inaugurated a new age of biomedical promise.

3. 1980

   prix Nobel — Chimie

   Chimie

   for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA