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Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) was an Indian-American biochemist. [1] 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 ...
Understanding and fighting one of the gravest enemies of humanity — The coronavirus pandemic — could not have been the same had it not been the pioneering work of Professor HarGobind Khorana, who demonstrated the role of nucleotides in protein synthesis and helped crack the genetic code.
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.
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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Apr 5, 2022 · Har Gobind Khorana: The chemist who cracked DNA’s code and made the first artificial gene was born into poverty in an Indian village. Har Gobind Khorana pieced together how DNA encoded for the...
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Nov 9, 2011 · 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 ...
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Nov 14, 2011 · H. Gobind Khorana, who rose from a childhood of poverty in India to become a biochemist and share in a Nobel Prize for his role in deciphering the genetic code, died on Wednesday in Concord,...
