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D. Carleton Gajdusek, M.D., was co-winner of a 1976 Nobel Prize for his work on kuru, the first human prion disease demonstrated to be infectious.
Marshall W. Nirenberg
Marshall Nirenberg is best known for “breaking the genetic code” in 1961, an achievement that won him the Nobel Prize.
Rodbell MartinImage Added
In a series of pioneering experiments conducted here at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Martin Rodbell and his colleagues discovered a mechanism that transformed our understanding of how cells respond to signals, by studying hormones—substances which have specific effects on cells' activity.
