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| Har Gobind Khorana هار گوبند خرانه | |
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| Born | 9 January, 1922 Jaipur, India |
| Died | 9 November, 2011 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | India |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Har Gobind Khorana (Sindhi: هار گوبند خرانه) (also known as Hargobind Khorana; 9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011)[1][2] was a biochemist. He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley.
He is from part of a poor family in Jaipur. He worked in Madison, Columbia, and Boston.
Their work was on the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids. Each triplet of nucleotides codes for a particular amino acid. Therefore the nucleic acid sequence controls how proteins are built.
