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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Har Khorana in his labrotory and office at the University of Wisconsin, mid-1960’s.
1966 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on protein synthesis. (L-R) Har Gobind Khorana, Francis Crick, Marianne Grunberg-Manago.
Har Gobind Khorana’s (pictured on the left) lecture on total synthesis of a biologically functional gene.
(Photo: U.S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division)