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Robert W. Holley — Age & Birthday

Born: 28 January 1922 · Died: 11 February 1993 · Age at death: 71

How old was Robert W. Holley when he died?

Robert W. Holley died aged 71. He was born on 28 January 1922 and died on 11 February 1993.

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who sequenced transfer RNA

Did you know?It took his team seven years of intensive research to determine the sequence of just 77 nucleotides in a molecule of yeast.

Robert William Holley (January 28, 1922 – February 11, 1993) was an American biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 (with Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall Warren Nirenberg) for describing the structure of alanine transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis.

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Age at death: 71
Would be: 104
Years since death: 33

Born: January 28, 1922 · Urbana, United States
Died: February 11, 1993
Cause of death: Lung cancer
Nationality: American
Known for: Science

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