Nirenberg, Marshall Warren

BS Park, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
VA Harden, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002889

1927– American scientist who deciphered the genetic code in living cells.

Keywords: genetic code; UUU; poly-U

Figure 1. Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927–).
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 Further Reading
    book Judson HF (1979) The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology. New York: Simon and Schuster.
    book Kay LE (2000) Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
    Nirenberg M and Leder P (1964) RNA codewords and protein synthesis: the effect of trinucleotides upon the binding of sRNA to ribosomes. Science 145: 1399–1407.
    Nirenberg M and Matthaei JH (1961) The dependence of cell-free protein synthesis in E. coli upon naturally occurring or synthetic polyribonucleotides. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 47: 1588–1622.

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Park, BS, and Harden, VA(Apr 2001) Nirenberg, Marshall Warren. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002889]