Robert W. Holley
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1968for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis
- Citizenship
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United States
- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 1/28/1922
- place of birth
- Urbana
- date of death
- 2/11/1993
- place of death
- Los Gatos
- Lived
- 71 years
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- educated at
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- Cornell University
- academic major: organic chemistry
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- end time: 1947
- Weill Cornell Medicine
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Urbana High School
- Cornell University
- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1968
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- National Academy of Sciences
- field of work
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- chemistry
- biochemistry
- employer
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- Cornell University
- occupation
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- chemist
- biochemist