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Marshall Warren Nirenberg

American biochemist and geneticist (1927-2010).

Born April 10th, 1927 in Brooklyn. [ref]

Died January 15th, 2010 at 82 years old in New York City (cancer). [ref]

Occupations
chemist, geneticist, neuroscientist

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel