What is Har Gobind Khorana?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Har Gobind Khorana <br> هار گوبند خرانه | image = Har Gobind Khorana.jpg | caption = | birth_date = 9 January, 1922 | birth_place = [[Raipur, Pakistan|Raipur]], [[Multan]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab Province]], [[British India]] (present day [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]], [[Pakistan]]) | death_date = 9 November, 2011 | death_place = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] | nationality = [[British Raj|British Indian]] | work_places = | prizes = [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] }} '''Har Gobind Khorana''' ([[Sindhi language|Sindhi]]: هار گوبند خرانه) (also known as '''Hargobind Khorana'''; 9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011)<ref>{{cite journal|author=Caruthers, M.; Wells, R.|year=2011|title=Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011)|journal=Science|volume=334|issue=6062|page=1511|doi=10.1126/science.1217138|pmid=22174242|bibcode=2011Sci...334.1511C|s2cid=206539004}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Rajbhandary, U. L.|year=2011|title=Har Gobind Khorana (1922–2011)|journal=Nature|volume=480|issue=7377|page=322|doi=10.1038/480322a|pmid=22170673|bibcode=2011Natur.480..322R|s2cid=205068970}}</ref> was a [[biochemist]]. He shared the 1968 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] with [[Marshall W. Nirenberg]] and [[Robert W. Holley]]. He worked in [[Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]], [[Columbia, South Carolina|Columbia]], and [[Boston]]. Their work was on the order of [[nucleotides]] in [[nucleic acid]]s. 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. ==Related pages== *[[List of Indian scientists]] *[[List of Nobel Prize winners from India]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Khorana, Har Gobind}} [[Category:Biochemists]] [[Category:1922 births]] [[Category:2011 deaths]] [[Category:Naturalized citizen