Har Gobind Khorana

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 Raipur, Punjab (during the British Raj), 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.

Awards: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Willard Gibbs Award, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Canada Gairdner International Award, ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,, National Medal of Science, Dannie Heineman Prize, Padma Vibhushan in science & engineering, Remsen Award Education: University of the Punjab, University of Liverpool, University of Cambridge, Government College University

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