Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marshall Warren Nirenberg

American biochemist and geneticist

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1927

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date of Death: 15-Jan-2010

Profession: chemist, geneticist, neuroscientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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.