Marshall Warren Nirenberg was an American biochemist and geneticist. He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 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 Khorana, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.
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Marshall Nirenberg born 10 April 1927
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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.
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