The Nirenberg and Matthaei experiment was a scientific experiment performed in May 1961 by Marshall W. Nirenberg and his post-doctoral fellow, J. Heinrich Matthaei, at the National Institutes of Healt
Nirenberg (right) and Matthaei at the National Institutes of Health
One of Nirenberg's laboratory notebooks
J. Heinrich Matthaei
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Johannes Heinrich Matthaei was a German biochemist. He is best known for his unique contribution to solving and providing a way to decode the genetic code on 15 May 1961.
Nirenberg and Matthaei experiment
…The Nirenberg and Matthaei experiment was a scientific experiment performed in May 1961 by Marshall W. Nirenberg and his post-doctoral fellow, J. Heinrich Matthaei, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The experiment deciphered the first of the 64 triplet codons in the genetic code by using nucleic acid…
Matthaei in 1962