Alumnus Paul Berg, then a Stanford University professor, shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger for their contributions to the understanding of recombinant DNA. The three co-authored one of the first papers that reported and explained production and intracellular replication of recombinant DNA, or DNA molecules formed through artificial means to create sequences that would not occur naturally in a genome.
Select photos courtesy of University Archives.