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Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) was an Indian-American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison , he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids , which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins.
Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for research that helped to show how the nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Learn about Khorana’s life and career.
Biographical. Har Gobind Khorana was born of Hindu parents in Raipur, a little village in Punjab, which is now part of eastern Pakistan. The correct date of his birth is not known; that shown in documents is January 9th, 1922. He is the youngest of a family of one daughter and four sons. His father was a «patwari», a village agricultural ...
Apr 5, 2022 · 2022 marked the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize winning chemist Har Gobind Khorana – or so we think. The exact date of his birth is not known, because Khorana was born in poverty in a British ...
Har Gobind Khorana. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968. Born: 9 January 1922, Raipur, India. Died: 9 November 2011, Concord, MA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. Prize motivation: “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis”. Prize share ...
Dec 14, 2011 · Har Gobind Khorana, who died on 9 November 2011 at the age of 89, was a pioneer and a visionary. That someone with such a humble background could rise to become an icon of molecular biology is a ...
May 2, 2018 · Before Har Gobind Khorana arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1970, he worked with the great nucleotide chemist, Alexander Todd at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Khorana was in the lab at the time that chemists were working out structure of the nucleotide building blocks of DNA and RNA.
