Har Gobind Khorana
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.
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| Born | 9 January, 1922 |
| Died | 9 November, 2011 |
| Nationality | British Indian |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
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. Khorana was the first to build a synthetic gene, in 1970. This helped a lot, with decoding the genetic code, which is based on amino acids.
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Har Gobind Khorana receiving NIH lecture award
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References
- ↑ Caruthers, M.; Wells, R.. Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011). Science 334 (6062) (2011). p. 1511. doi:10.1126/science.1217138.
- ↑ Rajbhandary, U. L.. Har Gobind Khorana (1922–2011). Nature 480 (7377) (2011). p. 322. doi:10.1038/480322a.