A Stanford professor's career in biochemistry, science politics, and the biotechnology industry
By: Paul Berg ; with introductions by Daniel E. Koshland and Charles Yanofsky. Interviews conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 1997. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Hughes, Sally Smith.; Program in the History of the Biosciences and Biotechnology.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: Stanford University. Dept. of Biochemistry.; Biochemists -- California -- Interviews.; Recombinant DNA -- Research -- History.; Molecular biology -- Research -- History.; Oncogenic viruses -- Research -- History.; Biochemistry -- Research -- History.; Biotechnology industries -- California.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Childhood and education, New York City; higher education, New York, Pennsylvania State University, Washington University, St. Louis; postdoctoral research with Arthur Kornberg and Herman Kalckar; research on amino acid activation, tumor viruses, recombinant DNA; Asilomar I conference (1973), recombinant DNA biohazards controversy, Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules (1975); commercialization of recombinant DNA and molecular biology; Nobel Prize, 1980; DNAX Research Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Inc., relations with Schering-Plough; Beckman Center for Molecular & Genetic Medicine, Stanford Medical School; Stanley N. Cohen, Herbert W. Boyer, Peter Lobban, James D. Watson, John Morrow, Joshua Lederberg, and other scientists.

oral history transcript with corrections.