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Marshall Warren Nirenberg
Marshall Warren Nirenberg · Hecht, Gerald V. (National Institutes of Health)., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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Marshall Warren Nirenberg

1927 – 2010 · aged 83

American biochemist and geneticist (1927-2010)

Born
10 Apr 1927 · Brooklyn
Died
15 Jan 2010 · Manhattan

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 95 years
  1. 10 Apr 1927BornBorn in Brooklyn
  2. 1962AwardNAS Award in Molecular Biology
  3. 1964AwardNational Medal of Science
  4. 1964AwardPfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry
  5. 1967AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  6. 1967AwardGrand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer
  7. 1967AwardRemsen Award
  8. 1968AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  9. 1968AwardFranklin Medal
  10. 1968AwardLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize
  11. 1968AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  12. 1969AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of Florida
  13. 1969AwardWilliam H. Nichols Medal
  14. 15 Jan 2010DiedDied in Manhattan

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1927 – 2010).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

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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