Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist
Died when: 82 years 280 days (993 months)Star Sign: Aries
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Marshall Warren Nirenberg (April 10, 1927 – January 15, 2010) was an American biochemist and geneticist.He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W.
Holley for "breaking the genetic code" and describing how it operates in protein synthesis.In the same year, together with Har Gobind Khorana, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.
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