Marshall Warren Nirenberg - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1968
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Marshall Warren Nirenberg

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1968
for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
4/10/1927
place of birth
Brooklyn
date of death
1/15/2010
place of death
Manhattan, New York City
Lived
82 years
educated at
  • University of Florida
  • University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
employer
  • United States National Institutes of Health
member of
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 2001
notable work
  • standard genetic code
field of work
  • genetics
  • biochemistry
occupation
  • chemist
  • geneticist
  • neuroscientist
  • zoologist
  • pharmacologist
  • biochemist
  • molecular biologist
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