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Har Gobind Khorana

Indian-American molecular biologist (1922-2011) · United States · Scientists · Died at 89

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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...

A life in dates

2011Died9 November 20112010Great Immigrants AwardAward1994Honorary Doctor of the University of MiamiAward1987National Medal of ScienceAward1980Canada Gairdner International AwardAward1978Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward1974Willard Gibbs AwardAward1969ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,AwardPadma Vibhushan in science & engineeringAward1968Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchAwardLouisa Gross Horwitz PrizeAwardNobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAwardRemsen AwardAward1967Dannie Heineman PrizeAward1922Born9 January 1922

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Awards

Great Immigrants Award2010
Honorary Doctor of the University of Miami1994
National Medal of Science1987
Canada Gairdner International Award1980
Foreign Member of the Royal Society1978
Willard Gibbs Award1974
ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,1969
Padma Vibhushan in science & engineering1969
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research1968
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1968
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize1968
Remsen Award1968
Dannie Heineman Prize1967
Honorary Doctor of the University of Calcutta

About this person

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.

Country
United States
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1922 to 2011 · aged 89

In common with Har

James FranckBoth received Dannie Heineman PrizeKarl Barry SharplessBoth received ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,K. Alex MüllerBoth received Dannie Heineman PrizeRobert Burns WoodwardBoth received ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,Georg BednorzBoth received Dannie Heineman PrizePhilip Warren AndersonBoth received Dannie Heineman Prize

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