List of Famous people with last name Nirenberg

Louis Nirenberg

First Name Louis

Last Name Nirenberg

Born on February 28, 1925

Died on January 26, 2020 (aged 94)

Born in Canada, Ontario

Louis Nirenberg was a Canadian-American mathematician, considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century.

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Marshall Warren Nirenberg

First Name Marshall

Last Name Nirenberg

Born on April 10, 1927

Died on January 15, 2010 (aged 82)

Born in United States of America, New York, New York City

Marshall Warren Nirenberg 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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