The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968
Awarded on: 1968-10-16
"for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis"
Affiliations:
- Cornell University – Ithaca, NY, USA
Robert W. Holley
Born: 1922-01-28 in Urbana, IL, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biochemist (1922–1993)
Biography
Robert William Holley was an American biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for describing the structure of alanine transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis.