H. Gobind Khorana, Ph.D.
H. Gobind Khorana, Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968
Co-Nobelists: Robert W. Holley, Marshall W. Nirenberg
National Medal of Sciences – Biological Sciences 1978
Name: Har Gobind Khorana
Birth: 9 January 1922, Raipur, India
Death: 9 November 2011, Concord, MA, USA
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Award: “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.”
Portion of Cash: 1/3
Education, Mentors: D.A.V. High School, Multan, India; Influential Teacher; Ratan Lal.
B.Sc. 1943 & M. Sc. 1945, Punjab University, Lahore, India; Supervisor: Mahan Singh.
Ph.D. University of Liverpool, UK 1948, Indian government scholarship; Mentor: Roger J. S. Beer.
Postdoc Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, 1948-1949; Mentor: Vladimir Prelog, Chemistry Nobelist 1975.
Postdoc Cambridge University, England 1949; Mentors: G. W. Kenner & A. R. Todd, Chemistry Nobelist 1957.
“Wife brought sense of purpose. In foreign country, I felt out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.”
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When the Nobel Committee announced that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to him, he was in a lakeside cottage. He was busy writing papers. There was no radio or telephone. At the University of Wisconsin, he was the last person to know that he had been awarded the Nobel!