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The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers

Title:
Letter from Marshall W. Nirenberg to Dennis Flanagan, Scientific American pdf (39,892 Bytes) ocr (751 Bytes)
Description:
Nirenberg turns down an offer to write a small book on the genetic code for Scientific American. He informs Flanagan that for the previous five years he had "been working on a different kind of coding problem--namely, how neurons are assembled into functional circuits during the development of the nervous system and how neurons encode and decode information."
Number of Image Pages:
1 (39,892 Bytes)
Date:
1972-06-26 (June 26, 1972)
Creator:
Nirenberg, Marshall W.
Recipient:
Flanagan, Dennis
Scientific American
Rights:
This item is in the public domain. It may be used without permission.
Exhibit Categories:
Public Reactions to the Genetic Code, 1961-1968
Neuroblastoma Research, 1967-1976
Relation:
Metadata Record Letter from Dennis Flanagan, Scientific American to Marshall W. Nirenberg (May 5, 1972)
Box Number: 8
Folder Number: 9
Unique Identifier:
JJBCBK
Accession Number:
2000-050
Document Type:
Letters (correspondence)
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
image/tif
Physical Condition:
Good
Series: Series III: Laboratory Administration, [1959]-1993
SubSeries: Daily Books, 1968-1996
Folder: #33 - #59, 1971 Oct-1972 Sep
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2007-02-26

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