- Description
- xxxvi, 406 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-384) and index.
- Contents
- Growing up in Brooklyn -- The essential Paul Berg -- College and World War II -- Western Reserve University -- Copenhagen -- Washington University, St. Louis -- Discovering transfer RNA -- Stanford University and its refurbished Department of Biochemistry -- Transcription and translation : new directions -- Making recombinant DNA : the first faltering steps -- Making recombinant DNA : a major breakthrough -- EcoRI restriction endonuclease : a major breakthrough -- "Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys" -- Yet another Stanford contribution -- An historic meeting in Hawaii -- The recombinant DNA controversy -- A momentous Gordon Research Conference -- Making recombinant molecules with frog DNA -- The controversy heats up -- Asilomar II -- The dissenters : a different point of view -- The aftermath -- Legislative and revisionist challenges to recombinant DNA -- Asilomar II : lessons learned -- The Nobel Prize in chemistry -- Commercializing the technology -- Life goes on -- The "retirement" years -- Public policy issues : and other interests -- Personal challenges.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-4405
- ISBN
- 9789814569033 (hardcover)
- 9814569038 (hardcover)
- 9789814569040 (pbk.)
- 9814569046 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2013041976
- OCLC
- 861324364
- Author
Friedberg, Errol C., author.
- Title
A biography of Paul Berg : the recombinant DNA controversy revisited / Errol C Friedberg, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA ; foreword by Sydney Brenner.
- Publisher
Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-384) and index.
- Research Call Number
JFE 15-4405