Har Gobind Khorana
9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011
Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research showing how the genetic code determines protein synthesis. He later achieved the first chemical synthesis of a functional gene. He spent much of his career at the University of Wisconsin and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Life events
Born into a Punjabi family in a village in present-day Pakistan.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgReceived his bachelor's and master's degrees from Punjab University.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCompleted his doctorate in organic chemistry in England.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBegan independent research on nucleic acids in Vancouver, Canada.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBecame a professor and continued work deciphering the genetic code.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShared the prize with Robert Holley and Marshall Nirenberg for interpreting the genetic code.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgJoined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he remained until retirement.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis laboratory constructed and demonstrated a working artificial gene.
Source: en.wikipedia.org