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, and in the same year received the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Khorana.
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Shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for interpreting the genetic code; Khorana's own lead names Nirenberg and Holley together, no separate detail on a direct joint project distinct from the shared prize.
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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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April 10, 1927
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January 15, 2010
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he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins.
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