Original: He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W. Holley for '' breaking the genetic code '' and describing how it operates in protein synthesis .
Simplified: He won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , along with Robert W. Holley and H. Gobind Khorana , for work on the genetic code and protein synthesis