Title:

The Code of Life Finally Cracked

Creator:

Ubell, Earl

Date:

24 December 1961

Description:

The author reports that Nirenberg "announced his achievement"--deciphering the first word of the genetic code--at the Moscow International Biochemical Congress in August 1961. The news, however, did not leak to the press until December when a group of researchers from New York University announced they had "taken Dr. Nirenberg's code-breaking procedure several steps further and deciphered fourteen out of twenty words of the code of life, and had thus effectively broken it."

Periodical:

New York Herald Tribune

Publisher:

New York Herald Tribune (Firm)

Location:

Box: 8. Folder: 47

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Earl Ubell.

Genre:

Newspaper columns

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Periodical. Ubell, Earl. "The Code of Life Finally Cracked." New York Herald Tribune, (24 December 1961). Newspaper Column. 1 Image.. New York Herald Tribune

Legacy ID:

JJBCBR

NLM ID:

101584910X451

Profiles Collection:

The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584910X451

Story Section:

Public Reactions to the Genetic Code, 1961-1968