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Khorana lived in British India until 1945, when he moved to England to study organic chemistry at the University of Liverpool on a Government of India Fellowship.
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.
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Khorana lived in India until 1945, when the award of a Government of India Fellowship made it possible for him to go to England and he studied for a Ph. D. degree at the University of Liverpool. Roger J. S. Beer supervised his research, and, in addition, looked after him diligently.
Apr 5, 2022 · In 1952, Khorana was offered his own laboratory at the University of British Columbia. Esther and Khorana married and moved to Vancouver. Solving the genetic code
- Sahotra Sarkar
Har Gobind Khorana was born to an underprivileged Indian family in Raipur, a village in today’s Pakistan. His father was a Patwari who worked as an agricultural taxation clerk in his village during the British Raj in India.
Born on January 9, 1922, in Multan in pre-Independence India, his father was a patwari, a village clerk occupying the lowest rung in the agricultural revenue collection system the ruling colonial government set up.
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Nov 9, 2011 · 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: 1/3. Work.
