# The Least Likely Man

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- Book: [The Least Likely Man](https://www.bookquiver.com/franklin-h-portugal/the-least-likely-man) ([The Least Likely Man.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/franklin-h-portugal/the-least-likely-man.md))
- Authors: [Franklin H. Portugal](https://www.bookquiver.com/franklin-h-portugal)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6252-993-8
- Pages: 198
- Published: 2016-10-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

How unassuming government researcher Marshall Nirenberg beat James Watson, Francis Crick, and other world-famous scientists in the race to discover the genetic code. The genetic code is the Rosetta Stone...