[HN Gopher] Paul Berg has died ___________________________________________________________________ Paul Berg has died Author : pseudolus Score : 33 points Date : 2023-04-02 15:32 UTC (7 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.the-scientist.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.the-scientist.com) | toomuchtodo wrote: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Berg | Asparagirl wrote: | _" Born to Jewish Russian immigrants in Brooklyn, New York on | June 30, 1926, Berg developed a love for science during middle | school..."_ | | _sigh_ The _vast_ majority of "Russian Jews" who came to the US | prior to the 1960s were not from Russia at all, but from one of | their colonized lands, ranging from Latvia to Romania to Poland. | It seriously took me less two minutes online to find Professor | Berg's parents' Ellis Island immigration record in 1923, which | clearly lists both his parents as having been born in "Kiew" | (Kyiv, Ukraine) which had been in an independent country until a | few months before they left, and that they had been staying more | recently in "Kishineff" (Chisinau, Moldova) prior to immigration, | which was in the independent Kingdom of Romania at the time. I | hate how these kinds of articles naively repeat the word | "Russian" to overwrite the histories and nationalities of the | independent people who live(d) in eastern Europe. | CaliforniaKarl wrote: | Important to note: Prof. Berg died on February 15 | (https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/02/nobel-paul- | be...). This article reads like an obituary, though I'm confused | why it's so late. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-04-02 23:00 UTC)