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Har Gobind Khorana
Indian-American molecular biologist
Har Gobind Khorana (9 January – 9 November ) was an Indian-American biochemist.[1] While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 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.[2][3]
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 ,[4] and received the National Medal of Science in [5]
Biography
Har Gobind Khorana was born to Ganpatrai Khorana and Krishna Devi, in Raipur, a village in Multan, Punjab, British India, in a Punjabi HinduKhatr