Marshall Nirenberg dies at 82; biochemist won Nobel for deciphering genetic code

Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 03:21 in Biology & Nature

An outsider in the science world, he and a partner made the breakthrough using a method rejected by a team of elite researchers working on the same problem. Marshall Nirenberg, the Nobel laureate who deciphered the genetic code that allows the information contained in genes to be translated into proteins, died Jan. 15 at his home in New York City. He was 82...

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