Some Time Ago In Brooklyn

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 and created an environment that promoted scientific curiosity. According to Berg, that was motivating; "She made science fun, she made us share i…