Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist and geneticist
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... Wikipedia
Born: April 10, 1927, New York, NY
Died: January 15, 2010 (age 82 years), New York, NY
Spouse: Myrna Weissman (m. 2005–2010) and Perola Zaltzman (m. 1961–2001)
Known for: Contribution to solving the genetic code
Education: University of Michigan and University of Florida
Fields: Biochemistry