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Franklin H. Portugal

The Least Likely Man

Marshall Nirenberg and the Discovery of the Genetic Code

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How unassuming government researcher Marshall Nirenberg beat James Watson, Francis Crick, and other world-famous scientists in the race to discover the genetic code.The genetic code is the Rosetta Stone by which we interpret the 3.3 billion letters of human DNA, the alphabet of life, and the discovery of the code has had an immeasurable impact on science and society. In 1968, Marshall Nirenberg, an unassuming government scientist working at the National Institutes of Health, shared the Nobel Prize for cracking the genetic code. He was the least likely man to make such an earth-shaking discovery, and yet he had gotten there before such members… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-262-32354-3
  • EAN: 9780262323543
  • Produktnummer: 27872793
  • Verlag: MIT Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 200 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 5'799 KB
  • Abbildungen: 14 B&W PHOTOS, 1 LINE DRAWING

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Franklin H. Portugal served on the scientific staff of the National Institutes of Health and was a professor at the University of Maryland University College. He is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the M.S. in Biotechnology Program at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His 1979 book, A Century of DNA (MIT Press), coauthored with Jack S. Cohen, remains in print today. He worked in Nirenberg's lab from 1967 to 1970.

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