Paul Berg received the Nobel Prize in 1980 for his pioneering work on recombinant DNA — his lab did some of the first experiments inserting a gene from one life form (a virus) into another (a bacterium).
I interviewed him by skype last April; the interview is now live on youtube: https://youtu.be/QKtzeEO9fMY Apologies if this is too self-promoting, but I thought it was general-interest enough to share. Dr. Berg is getting up in years but is still sharp as a tack and had lots of interesting things to say about the past, present and future of genetic engineering. jrs
