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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 9, 190–191 (1 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/nrm2353

Marshall Nirenberg

Errol C. Friedberg

Marshall Nirenberg was born in New York City in 1927. Following graduation from the University of Michigan, he did postdoctoral training with DeWitt Stetten Jr at the National Institutes of Health, where he began his independent research career and has remained ever since.