Marshall Warren Nirenberg
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American biochemist and geneticist
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Biology
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#77
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#24
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Biochemistry
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#36
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Molecular Biology
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#41
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#29
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Genetics
#32
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#53
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#22
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Why Is Marshall Warren Nirenberg Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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. In the same year, together with Har Gobind Khorana, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.
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