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Marshall Warren Nirenberg Scientist

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.

Personal facts

Birth date	April 10, 1927
Birth place	New York City
Nationality	United States
Date of death	January 15, 2010
Place of death	New York City
Known for	Genetic code

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