Marshall Nirenberg was born in New York City in 1927. Following graduation from the University of Michigan, he did postdoctoral training with DeWitt Stetten Jr at the National Institutes of Health ...

During the same year, Marshall Nirenberg and Heinrich Matthaei performed experiments that began deciphering the genetic code. They showed that the RNA sequence UUU specifically coded for the amino ...

Marshall W. Nirenberg, laboratory chief of biochemical genetics at the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, received a Nobel Prize in 1968 for helping to ...

The other two are Robert Holley of Cornell University and Dr Marshall Nirenberg of the National Heart Institute, Bethesda, ...