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Marshall Nirenberg and Sidney Pestka in office

Title:: Marshall Nirenberg and Sidney Pestka in office
Creator:: Life Magazine
Goro, Fritz
Date:: 19 August 1963
Description:: Nirenberg had many postdoctoral students who worked closely with him on his research. Pictured here is Sidney Pestka, a postdoctoral researcher who worked with Nirenberg on early coding efforts.
Location:: Box: 129. Folder: 52
Rights:: Reproduced with permission of TimePix.
Genre:: Photographic prints
Format:: Still Image
Extent:: 1 pages
Legacy ID:: JJBBBM
NLM ID:: 101584910X10
Profiles Collection:: The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584910X10
Story Section:: Translating the Code of Life and the Nobel Prize, 1962-1968