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Biomedical Research


In 1968, Dr. Marshall W. Nirenberg of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute became the first of four NIH Nobel laureates to date. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in translating the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis; he is shown here with his molecular models.

c. 1965


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