Marshall Warren Nirenberg
Also known as Marshall W. Nirenberg
American biochemist and geneticist (1927-2010)
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Marshall Warren Nirenberg was an American biochemist and geneticist who lived from 1927 to 2010. While specific details of his contributions aren't provided here, his work in biochemistry and genetics during the 20th century was significant enough to warrant historical recognition.
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- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,001x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,528x
- Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines
· 1953 · cited 29,722x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,892x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 22,016x
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Nirenberg (right) and Matthaei from 1961 Nirenberg from 1962. 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.
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1927 births2010 deathsAmerican biochemistsAmerican geneticistsAmerican Nobel laureatesDeaths from cancer in New York (state)Founding members of the World Cultural CouncilHistory of geneticsJewish American scientistsJewish biologistsJewish chemistsJewish Nobel laureatesMembers of the American Philosophical Society