[HN Gopher] Paul Berg has died
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       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.
        
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