The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968

Robert W. Holley

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Prize share: 1/3

Har Gobind Khorana

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Prize share: 1/3

Marshall W. Nirenberg

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968 was awarded jointly to Robert W. Holley, Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall W. Nirenberg "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis"

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