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Born January 9, 1922? • Raipur • India
Died November 9, 2011 • Concord • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1987) • Nobel Prize (1968)
Subjects Of Study chemical synthesis • nucleic acid • translation

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