Robert William Holley was an American biochemist. He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall Warren Nirenberg for describing the structure of alanine transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis.
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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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Robert William Holley (January 28, 1922, February 11, 1993) was an American biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 (with Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall Warren Nirenberg) for describing the structure of alanine transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis.
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January 28, 1922
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February 11, 1993
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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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