Marshall Warren Nirenberg

Dr. Marshall Nirenberg

Marshall Warren Nirenberg (10 April 1927 - 15 Januari 2010)^[1] ialah ahli biokimia dan ahli genetik Amerika. Beliau berkongsi Hadiah Nobel dalam Fisiologi atau Perubatan pada tahun 1968 dengan Har Gobind Khorana dan Robert W. Holley untuk "memecahkan kod genetik " dan menerangkan bagaimana ia beroperasi dalam sintesis protein. Pada tahun yang sama, bersama-sama dengan Har Gobind Khorana, beliau dianugerahkan Hadiah Louisa Gross Horwitz dari Columbia University.

Nota

1. Wade, Nicholas (January 21, 2010), "Marshall Nirenberg, Biologist Who Untangled Genetic Code, Dies at 82", NY Times.

Rujukan

• Voet, Donald and Judith G. Voet. 1995. Biochemistry 2nd ed. John Wilely & Sons, New York.
• U.S. National Library of Medicine. "Profiles in Science: The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers".

Bacaan lanjut

• Nobel Biography
• Marshall Nirenberg Papers (1937–2003) – National Library of Medicine finding aid
• The Marshall Nirenberg Papers – Profiles in Science, National Library of Medicine
• Free to View Video Interview with Marshall W. Nirenberg provided by the Vega Science Trust.
• The Life and Scientific Work of Marshall W. Nirenberg. (From Richard Olson & Roger Smith (eds.) The Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists. 1998.)
• The Official Site of Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
• Ed Regis (November 2007), "The Forgotten Code Cracker", Scientific American, 297 (5): 50–51, Bibcode:2007SciAm.297e..50R, doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1107-50, PMID 17990823, (subtitle) In the 1960s Marshall W. Nirenberg deciphered the genetic code, the combination of A, T, G and C nucleotides that specify amino acids. So why do people think that Francis Crick did it?