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Robert W. Holley
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Robert W. Holley was an American male artist active in the pop, pop rock, and rock genres. Born on January 28, 1922, he died on February 11, 1993. His recorded works include five entries, and his discography is associated with the genres of 2008 universal fire victim and death by plane crash.
Holley was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the Nobel Medicine collection. He is referenced by 301 other encyclopedia articles.
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1936-09-07
- Active to
- 1959-02-03
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,803x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 56,565x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,853x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 39,807x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,523x
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1968
“for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis”
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert W. Holley, on the far left 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.
Holley was born in Urbana, Illinois, and graduated from Urbana High School in 1938. He went on to study chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1942 and commencing his PhD studies in organic chemistry at Cornell University. During World War II Holley spent two years working under Professor Vincent du Vigneaud at Cornell University Medical College, where he was involved in the first chemical synthesis of penicillin. Holley completed his PhD studies in 1947.
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