Paul Berg

Awards

1. 1980

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   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

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

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

3. 1980

   Nobel Prize — Chemistry

   Chemistry

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