Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana

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Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for his pioneering work on the genetic code and the synthesis of nucleic acids.

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instanceOf Nobel laureate
biochemist
human
academicDegree PhD in organic chemistry
awardReceived Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
countryOfCitizenship Canada
India
United States of America
dateOfBirth 1922-01-09
dateOfDeath 2011-11-09
educatedAt ETH Zurich
University of Liverpool
University of the Punjab
employer Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of British Columbia
University of Wisconsin–Madison
ethnicGroup Punjabi
familyName Khorana
fieldOfWork biochemistry
genetics
molecular biology
givenName Gobind
Har
influenced development of synthetic DNA technology
modern genetic engineering
knownFor deciphering codon assignments in the genetic code
synthesis of nucleic acids
work on the genetic code
languageSpoken English
Punjabi
linked to: Punjabi language
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
United States National Academy of Sciences
NobelPrize.share 1/3
NobelPrize.subject genetic code and its function in protein synthesis
NobelPrize.year 1968
notableStudent Thomas A. Steitz
linked to: Thomas Steitz
numberOfChildren 3
placeOfBirth Raipur, Punjab Province, British India
placeOfDeath Concord, Massachusetts, United States
positionHeld Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry at MIT
religion Hinduism
researchContribution chemical synthesis of oligonucleotides
demonstration of the role of nucleotide triplets (codons) in protein synthesis
synthesis of the first artificial gene
residence Boston metropolitan area, Massachusetts, United States
linked to: Greater Boston

Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Vancouver, Canada
linked to: Vancouver
spouse Esther Elizabeth Sibler

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University of the Punjab hasNotableAlumni Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana
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