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| complete name: |
Har Gobind Khorana |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
1968 |
| together with: |
Robert W. Holley |
| together with: |
Marshall Warren Nirenberg |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968 was awarded jointly to Robert W. Holley, Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall W. Nirenberg "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Har |
| family name: |
Khorana |
| occupation: |
professor |
| occupation: |
biologist |
| occupation: |
geneticist |
| field of work: |
molecular biology |
| work location: |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139-4307, United States of America |
| description: |
Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-American biochemist who 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. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year. Khorana was born in Raipur, British India (today Tehsil Kabirwala, Punjab, Pakistan) and later moved to become an Indian citizen after the partition of 1947. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1966, and subsequently received the National Medal of Science. He served as MIT's Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry, Emeritus and was a member of the Board of Scientific Governors at The Scripps Research Institute. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1968/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1922 |
| date death: |
2011 |
| usual name: |
Har Khorana |
