Marshall Warren Nirenberg - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	10-April-1927
Place of Birth	Brooklyn (United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
Nationality	United States of America
Profession	Chemist
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.

Awards by Marshall Warren Nirenberg

Check all the awards nominated and won by Marshall Warren Nirenberg.

1968

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	(for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis)
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research	(For their contributions toward deciphering the genetic code.)

1967

Gairdner Foundation International Award	(In recognition of his contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms of protein synthesis. His work demonstrated the validity of concepts of the role of various nucleic acid species in the cell. He initiated and pursued studies which eventually led to a complete understanding of the chemical basis of the genetic code.)

1964

National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences	(For studies of the genetic control of protein synthesis and, in particular, for deciphering the chemical code relating nucleic acid structures to protein structures.)

1962

NAS Award in Molecular Biology	(For his studies of the molecular mechanisms for the biosynthesis of protein.)

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