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Marshall Warren Nirenberg

Marshall Warren Nirenberg
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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. Alan MacDiarmidApril 14, 1927 – February 7, 2007
  2. F. Sherwood RowlandJune 28, 1927 – March 10, 2012
  3. George O. AbellMarch 1, 1927 – October 7, 1983
  4. Karl Alexander MüllerApril 20, 1927 – January 9, 2023
  5. Marshall Warren Nirenberg (this page)April 10, 1927 – January 15, 2010
  6. Martin Lewis PerlJune 24, 1927 – September 30, 2014

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