This biography details the life of Paul Berg (Emeritus Professor at Stanford University), tracing Berg's life from birth, in 1926, to the present, with special emphasis on his emormous scientific contributions, including being the first to develop technology that led to gene cloaing science. In 1980, Berg received a Nobel Prize in chemistry for this work. In addition to his contributions in the research laboratory, Berg orchestrated and oversaw a histore meeting at Asilomar, California that centered on a threatening controversy surrounding the perception by some of the harmful potential at recombinant DNA technology. This meeting did much to forestall this controversy and to put in place the regulation of recombinant DNA work, thus putting tears to rest.