Har Gobind Khorana: 7 things you need to know about this DNA researcher
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Google Doodle honours Har Gobind Khorana
Google today celebrated the 96th birth anniversary of Indian-American Nobel prize-winning biochemist Har Gobind Khorana with a doodle.
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Har Gobind Khorana: Nobel Prize winner
The researcher shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed how the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell's synthesis of proteins.
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Scholarships
Scholarships helped propel the budding scientist through his scholastic journey, obtaining his doctorate in organic chemistry in 1948.
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Research
He also conducted research at universities in England, Switzerland, and Canada, and it was at the University of Wisconsin that he and two fellow researchers received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968.
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Awards & accolades
Dr. Khorana is also renowned for constructing the first synthetic gene and received a multitude of awards during his lifetime, including the National Medal of Science.
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Death
Alumni of University of Liverpool, University of Cambridge and University of Punjab, he dedicated his life to education, science and research.
Khorana died on November 9, 2011, at the age of 89.
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