Holley

Hol·ley

[hol-ee]
noun
Robert William, 1922–1993, U.S. biochemist: Nobel prize for medicine 1968.
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Holley Hol·ley (hŏl'ē), Robert William. Born 1922.

American biochemist. He shared a 1968 Nobel Prize for the study of genetic codes.

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