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:
- National Institutes of Health – Bethesda, MD, USA
Marshall W. Nirenberg
Born: 1927-04-10 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biochemist and geneticist (1927–2010)
Biography
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.