Robert William Holley

January 28^th

• Robert William Holley was an American biochemist
• who shared the 1968Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Marshall Warren Nirenbergand Har Gobind Khorana).
• The three scientists independently conducted research that helped to decipher the genetic code chemically and explain how the genetic information stored in the DNA of a cell controls the synthesis of proteins, the building blocks of cells.