Cracking the Genetic Code
Marshall Nirenberg was the first federal worker to win the Nobel in physiology or medicine, and it made him an instant celebrity. But he decided to spend his entire working career at the NIH. More »
Art Molella is Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Director of the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
Marshall Nirenberg was the first federal worker to win the Nobel in physiology or medicine, and it made him an instant celebrity. But he decided to spend his entire working career at the NIH. More »
Based on a slogan used by Wonder Bread, the now-common phrase for hyping a new product was impossible before slicing machines. More »
It is a measure of the potential and newness of this technology that the public knows of it mainly through science fiction and films More »
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