Har Govind Khurana

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Har Gobind Khorana.

9 November is the death anniversary of Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011), the Indian American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1968.

Khorana was born in Raipur, in Punjab, now part of Pakistan.
Despite being poor and born in a village without educational facilities, Khorana went on to receive a master’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Punjab in Lahore.
In 1945, Khorana moved to the University of Liverpool, UK, under a Government of India Fellowship, where he obtained a PhD in 1948.

Khorana spent an year at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, before he moved to Cambridge. A job offer in 1952 took him to Vancouver, Canada.

In 1960 Khorana moved to the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin, USA. He later became a naturalised citizen of the United States.
From 1970, Khorana was Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Khorana shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine 1968 with Robert Holley and Marshall Nirenberg, “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.”
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