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Norton D. Zinder, Researcher in Molecular Biology, Dies at 83

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 on Friday in a nursing home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. He was 83. He received his doctorate at UW-Madison.