Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Paul Berg
Prize share: 1/2
Photo: Harvard University News Office. Nobel Foundation archive
Walter Gilbert
Prize share: 1/4
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Frederick Sanger
Prize share: 1/4
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980 was divided, one half awarded to Paul Berg "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA", the other half jointly to Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids"
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