H. Gobind Khorana

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1968

Nucleic Acid Synthesis in the Study of the Genetic Code

 

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1963-1970, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972

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