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Noble Prize Winners in Protein Synthesis - Nobel prize winnes. In the last 15 years several Nobel prizes in physiology and medicine have been awarded for work done on nucleic acids and protein synthesis. In 1975 Alexander Todd of Great Britain was awarded the prize for his studies on nucleotides and nucleotidic coenzymes.

The 1958 prize went to Beadle and Tatum for their work showing that one gene is responsible for one enzyme. Lederberg also shared the prize for his work on genetic recombination. The 1959 Nobel prize was shared by Ochoa and Kornberg for successful synthesis of RNA and DNA, repectively.