Kim thanks Nirenberg for arranging a postdoctoral fellowship for him at NIH. He notes that he considers Nirenberg's work on the genetic code as one of the three milestones (along with Mendelism and DNA structure) in the history of the life sciences. Kim would subsequently be the key figure in the discovery of the four new homeobox genes.
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