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The Least Likely Man : Marshall Nirenberg and the Discovery of the Genetic Code by Franklin H. Portugal is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
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<b>Go behind-the-scenes of a landmark moment in science history with this fascinating biography of Nobel Prize winner Marshall Nirenberg—the unassuming government researcher who beat world-famous scientists in the race to discover the genetic code.</b><br> <br> The genetic code is the Rosetta Stone by which we interpret the 3.3 billion letters of human DNA and the discovery of the code has had an immeasurable impact on science and society. In 1968, Marshall Nirenberg, an unassuming government s
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Franklin H. Portugal
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262028479
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Memoir, Medical, Chemistry
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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