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But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
Paul Berg / Scientist
War
Effort
Enlisted
Navy
Flyer
War Effort
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With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
Paul Berg / Scientist
Discovery
Excitement
Facts
Forgotten
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Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
Paul Berg / Scientist
Education
Aerospace
Curiosity
Important
Instinct
Looking Back
Nurturing
Solutions
Looking
Back
Contributions
Seek
Perhaps
Realize
The Most Important
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Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.
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Creating
Environment
Evolution
Human Evolution
Kind
Altering
Concerns
Fears
Rampant
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By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.
Paul Berg / Scientist
Academic
Hooked
Industry
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Industry
Research
Considered
Deciding
Originally
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Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.
Paul Berg / Scientist
Relationship
Technology
Biology
Human Values
Ideas
Impact
Novel
Impinge
Perceived
Renewed
Strains
Technologies
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But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
Paul Berg / Scientist
Design
Interesting
Perspective
Prospects
Scale
Biological
Chemical
Designing
Far Less
Industrial
Occur
Plants
Processes
Seemed
Systems
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By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.
Paul Berg / Scientist
Becoming
Biochemistry
Genes
Molecular Biology
Transition
Act
Classical
Increasingly
Making
Molecular
Preoccupied
Proteins
Slow
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Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.
Paul Berg / Scientist
Approach
Consensus
Developing
Discussion
Encouraged
Inform
Measured
Scientists
Succeeded
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Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.
Paul Berg / Scientist
Technology
Disease
Drug
Embargo
Treatment
Diseases
Exists
Paradoxically
Revolutionized
Technologies
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Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.
Paul Berg / Scientist
Cells
Embryonic Stem Cells
Research
Stem
Today
Attempts
Embryonic
Ethically
Prepare
Stem Cells
Unacceptable
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That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Paul Berg / Scientist
Technology
Analyzing
Chemistry
Dna
Emergence
Function
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Providing
Receiving
Structure
Work Technology Me
Basis
Formed
Gene
Major
Led
Thereby
Tool
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Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.
Paul Berg / Scientist
Science
Barriers
Breach
Concern
Dna
Effects
Moving
Natural
Profound
Species
Among
Disappeared
Evolutionary
Moreover
Occur
Processes
Revealed
Substantially
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