Robert W. Holley(1922)
MedicineRobert William Holley was an American biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for describing the structure of alanine transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1968for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis
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Education
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Cornell University(Doctor of Philosophy)
Weill Cornell Medicine
Urbana High School
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National Academy of Sciences (US)American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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