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Marshall Warren Nirenberg

Scientist · born April 10, 1927 · died 2010

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Marshall Warren Nirenberg 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.

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  1. ~37Received the National Medal of Science1964
  2. ~41Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1968
  3. ~41Received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research1968
  4. ~41Received the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize1968

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