Marshall W. Nirenberg

Marshall W. Nirenberg

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968

National Institutes of Health

“for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis”

Marshall W. Nirenberg was an American biochemist and geneticist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.

Field
Biology · Molecular Biology
Lifespan
1927–2010