What type of details about j. heinrich matthaei can be gathered from the following bio? Bio: j. heinrich matthaei -lrb- born 4 may 1929 in bonn -rrb- is a german biochemist . he is best known for his unique contribution to solving the genetic code on 15 may 1961 . whilst a post-doctoral visitor in the laboratory of marshall warren nirenberg at the nih in bethesda , maryland , he discovered that a synthetic rna polynucleotide , composed of a repeating uridylic acid residue , coded for a polypeptide chain encoding just one kind of amino acid , phenylalanine . in scientific terms , he discovered that polyu codes for polyphenylalanine and hence the coding unit for this amino acid is composed of a series of us or , as we now know the genetic code is read in triplets , the codon for phenylalanine is uuu . this single experiment opened the way to the solution of the genetic code . it was for this and later work on the genetic code for which nirenberg shared the nobel prize for medicine and physiology . in addition , matthaei and his co-wokers in the following years published a multitude of results concerning the early understanding of the form and function of the genetic code . why matthaei , who personally deciphered the genetic code , was excluded from this scientific prize is one of the nobel prize controversies . later , matthaei was a member of the max planck society in gottingen .
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