Dr. Zinder discovered the universal start signal, the unit with which protein molecules begin.
(Jack Manning/New York Times)
Norton Zinder, 83, pioneer in molecular biology research
Dr. Zinder discovered the universal start signal, the unit with which protein molecules begin.
(Jack Manning/New York Times)
Norton D. Zinder, a researcher who helped lay the basis for the new field of molecular biology in the 1950s and ’60s and who played a crucial role in the politics of decoding the human genome, died Feb. 3 in a nursing home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. He was 83.
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