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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

MARSHALL W. NIRENBERG

Title: Chief, Section of Biochemical Genetics
Affiliation:   National Institutes of Health
    National Heart Institute
    MarylandUSA
Gender:   Male
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Award Discipline:   Biological Sciences
Award Year:   1964
Citation:   "For studies of the genetic control of protein synthesis and, in particular, for deciphering the chemical code relating nucleic acid structures to protein structures."
    Presented by President Johnson at a White House Ceremony in the East Room on February 8, 1965.
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Nobel Laureate:   Physiology or Medicine, 1968

 

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