On a cold New York morning in the early 1940s, Paul Berg left his home in Brooklyn heading to 528 Ridgewood Avenue, the site of Abraham Lincoln High School. The young Berg loved Chemistry, a feeling that grew after reading Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters and Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith. Berg was a member of the school's science club, which was lead at the time by Miss Sophie Wolfe, the school's laboratory demonstrator. She challenged her students …showed first 75 words of 531 total…

…showed last 75 words of 531 total…club leader, who else you know has been cited by three Nobel laureates as an inspiration? NOTE: The following sources have been used in writing this essay: ACSB, "Profile of Paul Berg", www.ascb.org/profiles/9610.html; James Watson, "The Secret of Life"; Karl Jerome and others, www.geometry.net/detail/nobel/karle_jerome.html; Elizabeth H Oakes, "Berg, Paul." Science Online. www.factsonfile.com; Elizabeth H Oakes, "Kornberg, Arthur." Science Online. www.factsonfile.com.