Person · Nobel biochemist · India
Har Gobind Khorana
Also known as H. G. Khorana
Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011), born in Raipur (Multan district, now Pakistan). Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968 (with Marshall Nirenberg and Robert Holley) for interpreting the genetic code and showing how it functions in protein synthesis. First to chemically synthesise a complete biologically active gene (1972) and the first synthetic gene expressed in a living cell (1976). Trained at Panjab University, Lahore and the University of Liverpool; worked at Cambridge, Wisconsin and MIT. His chemical approach to the genetic code shaped the next half-century of molecular biology.
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- British Colonial Age, Republic and Living Practice
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- Science & medicine
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- Studied atKhalsa College, Amritsar
Khorana took his BSc at Khalsa College, Amritsar, in 1943 and his MSc at Panjab University, Lahore, in 1945. The Khalsa College training in chemistry under Mahan Singh was decisive; a Government of India scholarship then took him to Liverpool for a PhD. Twenty-five years later he shared the Nobel Prize for the genetic code.
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