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Marshall W. Nirenberg

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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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Birth Year
1927 1
Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account
1927-04-10 2
Death DateSourced to the subject's own account
2010-01-15 2
Death Year
2010 1
Death Place
Manhattan, United States 1
Death Place
New York City, United States 1
Nationality
United States 1
Notable Work
standard genetic code 1
Birthplace
Brooklyn, United States 1
Field
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Chemistry 1
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Biology 1
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Genetics 1
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Medicine 1
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Neuroscience 1
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Har Gobind Khorana, Scientists

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.

Additional Source Har Gobind Khorana (Wikipedia)Lead section, Har Gobind Khorana

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Source Marshall W. Nirenberg (Wikipedia)

Works In

Source Marshall W. Nirenberg (Wikipedia)
Genetics, Disciplines
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Source Marshall W. Nirenberg (Wikidata)
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1. Marshall W. Nirenberg (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +2010-01-15T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): United States
    Q30
  • P20 (place of death): New York City, United States
    Q60
  • P20 (place of death): Manhattan, United States
    Q11299
  • P19 (place of birth): Brooklyn, United States
    Q18419
  • P800 (notable work): standard genetic code
    Q180618
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2. Marshall W. Nirenberg (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Lead section (MediaWiki plaintext extract)
    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.
  • Infobox, Born
    April 10, 1927
  • Infobox, Died
    January 15, 2010
  • Works In: Genetics, Lead sentence
    Marshall Warren Nirenberg (April 10, 1927, January 15, 2010) was an American biochemist and geneticist.
  • Works In: Biochemistry, Lead sentence
    Marshall Warren Nirenberg (April 10, 1927, January 15, 2010) was an American biochemist and geneticist.
  • Member Of: National Academy of Sciences, Categories
    Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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Har Gobind Khorana (Wikipedia)
WikipediaAssociated With: Har Gobind Khorana, Lead section, Har Gobind Khorana
Quote, Associated With: Har Gobind Khorana, Lead section, Har Gobind Khorana
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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