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Walter Gilbert

By Lucy H. Vuong
Walter Gilbert ’53, who would share the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for DNA research involving DNA, remembers the debate over the safety of recombinant DNA research playing out “inside the University in several meetings” before spilling out into the public.
Walter Gilbert ’53, who would share the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for DNA research involving DNA, remembers the debate over the safety of recombinant DNA research playing out “inside the University in several meetings” before spilling out into the public.

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