Har Gobind Khorana

Key facts

Born

9 January 1922, Raipur

Died

9 November 2011, Concord

State of birth

Raipur

Sector

Science & space

Profession

Indian-American molecular biologist (1922-2011)

Gender

Male

Biography

Har Gobind Khorana 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.

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Timeline

1. 1922Born in Raipur
2. 1967Awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize
3. 1968Awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
4. 1968Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
5. 1968Awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
6. 1968Awarded the Remsen Award
7. 1969Awarded the ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,
8. 1969Awarded the Padma Vibhushan in science & engineering
9. 1974Awarded the Willard Gibbs Award
10. 1978Awarded the Foreign Member of the Royal Society
11. 1980Awarded the Canada Gairdner International Award
12. 1987Awarded the National Medal of Science
13. 1994Awarded the honorary doctor of the University of Miami
14. 2010Awarded the Great Immigrants Award
15. 2011Dies in Concord