Gallery 22: Marshall Nirenberg at the White House.
Marshall Nirenberg at the White House explaining the genetic code to President Lyndon Johnson.
Marshall Nirenberg, White House, genetic code , President Lyndon Johnson
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Working out the base compositions for the codons in the genetic code.
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16497. Gallery 22: Marshall Nirenberg, 1960
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15885. Cell-free extracts
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