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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968

"for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis"
Robert W. Holley Har Gobind Khorana Marshall W. Nirenberg
Robert W. Holley Har Gobind Khorana Marshall W. Nirenberg
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA USA USA
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA		 University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, USA		 National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
b. 1922
d. 1993		 b. 1922
(in Raipur, India)		 b. 1927
 
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