Har Gobind Khorana Biography
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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. Khorana and Nirenberg
were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in
the same year.
Born in British India, Khorana served on
the faculties of three universities in North America. He became a naturalized
citizen of the United States in 1966, and received the National Medal of
Science in 1987.
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