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GAMOW, George (Gamov) (1904 – 1968)

GAMOW, George (Gamov) (1904 – 1968)

1904 – 1968

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1954 CE

#6896

Possible relation between deoxyribonucleic acid and protein structures.

Gamow, a physicist, invented the concept of a genetic code. This brief 1-page paper, published in the February 13, 1954 issue of Nature was the first specific positive response to Watson and Crick's structure of DNA. …