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Marshall Warren Nirenberg

1927 - 2010

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Marshall Warren Nirenberg (April 10, 1927 – January 15, 2010) 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 synthesis. In the same year, together with Har Gobind Khorana, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marshall Warren Nirenberg is the 151st most popular chemist (down from 95th in 2019), the 754th most popular biography from United States (down from 624th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Chemist.

Marshall Warren Nirenberg was a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for his work on the genetic code.

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Among chemists, Marshall Warren Nirenberg ranks 151 out of 602. Before him are Jerome Karle, Kurt Wüthrich, Johann Rudolf Glauber, Glenn T. Seaborg, Sune Bergström, and Casimir Funk. After him are Hermann Kolbe, Harry Kroto, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Robert W. Holley, Paul D. Boyer, and Feodor Lynen.

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Among people born in 1927, Marshall Warren Nirenberg ranks 33. Before him are Albert Uderzo, George Andrew Olah, John McCarthy, Rosalynn Carter, Janet Leigh, and Robert Hossein. After him are Simone Veil, Gilbert Bécaud, Theodore Maiman, Lawrence Kohlberg, Hubert de Givenchy, and Niklas Luhmann. Among people deceased in 2010, Marshall Warren Nirenberg ranks 23. Before him are Bobby Farrell, Alois Brunner, Claude Chabrol, Dennis Hopper, Néstor Kirchner, and Vasily Smyslov. After him are Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Zecharia Sitchin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Francesco Cossiga, Harry Mulisch, and Algirdas Brazauskas.

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Among people born in United States, Marshall Warren Nirenberg ranks 754 out of 20,380. Before him are Martin Cooper (1928), Charles Goodyear (1800), Mike Pence (1959), William G. Morgan (1870), Bell hooks (1952), and Kip Thorne (1940). After him are Hugh Everett III (1930), Diana Ross (1944), Roy Lichtenstein (1923), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), Pat Robertson (1930), and Oprah Winfrey (1954).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Marshall Warren Nirenberg ranks 34. Before him are Harold Urey (1893), Robert Burns Woodward (1917), Paul Flory (1910), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), Jerome Karle (1918), and Glenn T. Seaborg (1912). After him are Robert W. Holley (1922), Paul D. Boyer (1918), Willard Libby (1908), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), Richard F. Heck (1931), and William Standish Knowles (1917).

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