Genetic code theory

By now it was known that there were at least twenty amino acids, and if the DNA mapped to them in some way using just the four nucleotides, there must be some encoding scheme. Gamow proposed a scheme triplets allow to encode 4^3 = 64 amino acids.
 George Gamow United States 1954 Genetic code theory

By now it was known that there were at least twenty amino acids, and if the DNA mapped to them in some way using just the four nucleotides, there must be some encoding scheme. Gamow proposed a scheme triplets allow to encode 4^3 = 64 amino acids.