Editing Nirenberg and Leder experiment (section)

==Reception and legacy==
[[File:06 chart pu3.png|thumb|250px| Genetic Code Chart]]By the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium of 1966, between  Nirenberg and Khorana the [[genetic code]] was almost completely decoded.  Nirenberg was awarded the 1968 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]. He shared the award with [[Har Gobind Khorana]] of the [[University of Wisconsin]] and Robert W. Holley of the Salk Institute. Working independently, Khorana had mastered the synthesis of nucleic acids, and Holley had discovered the exact chemical structure of transfer-RNA. <br>
''The New York Times'' said of Nirenberg's work that "the science of biology has reached a new frontier," leading to "a revolution far greater in its potential significance than the atomic or hydrogen bomb." Most of the scientific community saw these experiments as highly important and beneficial.  However, there were some who were concerned with the new era of [[molecular genetics]]. For example,  [[Arne Tiselius]], the 1948 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, asserted that knowledge of the genetic code could "lead to methods of tampering with life, of creating new diseases, of controlling minds, of influencing heredity, even perhaps in certain desired directions."<ref name="Fee_public">{{cite web |last= Fee |first=E. |title=Profiles in Science: The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers. Public Reaction |url=https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/jj/feature/publicreaction |publisher=National Library of Medicine |year=2000 |accessdate=9 April 2020|url-status=live |archive-date=9 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200409213318/https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/jj/feature/publicreaction}}</ref>