Marshall W. Nirenberg | |
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Born | April 10, 1927 |
Died | January 15, 2010 |
Alma mater | University of Florida University of Michigan |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1968) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Zoology Biochemistry |
Marshall Warren Nirenberg (April 10, 1927 - January 15, 2010) was an American biochemist.[1] He won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Robert W. Holley and H. Gobind Khorana, for work on the genetic code and protein synthesis [2]