The Least Likely Man

Go behind-the-scenes of a landmark moment in science history with this fascinating biography of Nobel Prize winner Marshall Nirenberg—the unassuming government researcher who beat world-famous scientists in the race to discover the genetic code. The genetic code is the Rosetta Stone by which we interpret the 3.3 billion letters of human DNA and the discovery of the code has had an immeasurable impact on science and society. In 1968, Marshall Nirenberg, an unassuming government scientist working