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berg

[burg]
–noun Oceanography.
iceberg.

Origin:
1815–25; by shortening

Berg

[berg or Ger. berk for 1; burg for 2]
–noun
1. Al⋅ban [ahl-bahn, ahl-bahn] , 1885–1935, Austrian composer.
2. Patricia Jane (Patty), 1918–2006, U.S. golfer.
3. Paul, born 1926, U.S. biochemist: Nobel prize 1980.
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berg   (bûrg)   
n.  A mass of floating or stationary ice; an iceberg.

[Short for iceberg.]
Berg   (běrg, běrk)   
Austrian composer. A pupil of Arnold Schönberg, he applied an atonal manner to classical forms in works such as the opera Wozzeck (1925) and Violin Concerto (1935).
Berg   (bûrg)   
American golfer who won 57 professional tournament titles, including 15 major championship titles, during her career.
Berg, Paul Born 1926.  
American chemist. He shared a 1980 Nobel Prize for developing methods for mapping the structure and function of DNA.
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Berg (bûrg), Paul. Born 1926.

American chemist. He shared a 1980 Nobel Prize for developing recombinant methods of inserting genes from simple organisms into the genetic material of similar organisms.

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