When did Marshall Warren Nirenberg pass away?
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Marshall Warren Nirenberg passed away in 2010. He was an American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert W. Holley and Har Gobind Khorana for their work on the genetic code and its role in protein synthesis. Nirenberg's research focused on the use of synthetic RNA molecules to determine the sequence of nucleotides that code for specific amino acids.
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