Har Gobind Khorana
Academic
1922 – 2011
Who was Har Gobind Khorana?
Har Gobind Khorana also known as Hargobind Khorana was an Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that helped to show how the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.
He was born in Raipur, British India and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1966, and subsequently received the National Medal of Science. He served as MIT's Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry, Emeritus and was a member of the Board of Scientific Governors at The Scripps Research Institute.
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- Born
- Jan 9, 1922
Raipur, Punjab - Also known as
- Корана, Хар Гобинд
- 哈爾·葛賓·科拉納
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Sikh
- Sikhism
- Ethnicity
- Indian American
- Punjabi diaspora
- Nationality
- United States of America
- India
- United Kingdom
- Education
- University of Liverpool
- University of the Punjab
- University of Cambridge
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- United States of America
- India
- Greater India
- Pakistan
- Died
- Nov 9, 2011
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on July 23, 2013
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