Har Gobind Khorana
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Har Gobind Khorana هار گوبند خرانه | |
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| Born | 9 January, 1922 |
| Died | 9 November, 2011 |
| Nationality | India |
| 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 part of a poor family in India. 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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- ↑ Caruthers, M.; Wells, R. (2011). "Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011)". Science. 334 (6062): 1511. Bibcode:2011Sci...334.1511C. doi:10.1126/science.1217138. PMID 22174242. S2CID 206539004.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Rajbhandary, U. L. (2011). "Har Gobind Khorana (1922–2011)". Nature. 480 (7377): 322. Bibcode:2011Natur.480..322R. doi:10.1038/480322a. PMID 22170673. S2CID 205068970.