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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

Maryland  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2010

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.

Nobel Laureate:

Physiology or Medicine, 1968

 

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