The Code of Life Finally Cracked
- Contributor(s):
- Ubell, Earl New York Herald Tribune
- Publication:
- New York Herald Tribune (Firm), 24 December 1961
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Genre(s):
- Archival Materials Newspaper columns
- Abstract:
- The author reports that Nirenberg "announced his achievement"--deciphering the first word of the genetic code--at the Moscow International Biochemical Congress in August 1961. The news, however, did not leak to the press until December when a group of researchers from New York University announced they had "taken Dr. Nirenberg's code-breaking procedure several steps further and deciphered fourteen out of twenty words of the code of life, and had thus effectively broken it."
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- Extent:
- 1 pages
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101584910X451 (See in Profiles in Science)
- Profiles in Science ID:
- JJBCBR
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584910X451
- Archival Collection:
- The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers (Profiles in Science)