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Letter from Marshall W. Nirenberg to Dennis Flanagan, Scientific American

Title:: Letter from Marshall W. Nirenberg to Dennis Flanagan, Scientific American
Creator:: Nirenberg, Marshall W.
Recipient:: Scientific American and Flanagan, Dennis, 1919-2005
Date:: 26 June 1972
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."
Location:: Box: 8. Folder: 9
Rights:: Public Domain
Genre:: Letters (correspondence)
Format:: Text
Extent:: 1 pages
Relation:: Letter from Dennis Flanagan, Scientific American to Marshall W. Nirenberg, 1972
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: JJBCBK
NLM ID:: 101584910X445
Profiles Collection:: The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584910X445
Story Section:: Neuroblastoma Research, 1967-1976