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Har Gobind Khorana

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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 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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1922 1
Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account
1922-01-09 2
Death DateSourced to the subject's own account
2011-11-09 2
Death Year
2011 1
Death Place
Concord, United States 1
Nationality
British Raj 1
Nationality
Dominion of India 1
Nationality
India 1
Nationality
United States 1
Birthplace
Raipur, Pakistan 1
Field
Field (category)
Chemistry 1
Field (category)
Biology 1
Field (category)
Genetics 1
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Associated With

Marshall W. Nirenberg, Scientists

Shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for interpreting the genetic code; Khorana's own lead names Nirenberg and Holley together, no separate detail on a direct joint project distinct from the shared prize.

Additional Source Har Gobind Khorana (Wikipedia)Lead section, Har Gobind Khorana
Robert W. Holley, Scientists

Shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for interpreting the genetic code; Khorana's own lead names Nirenberg and Holley together, no separate detail on a direct joint project distinct from the shared prize.

Additional Source Har Gobind Khorana (Wikipedia)Lead section, Har Gobind Khorana
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1. Har Gobind Khorana (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +2011-11-09T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): British Raj
    Q129286
  • P20 (place of death): Concord, United States
    Q523240
  • P27 (country of citizenship): United States
    Q30
  • P19 (place of birth): Raipur, Pakistan
    Q3523886
  • P27 (country of citizenship): Dominion of India
    Q1775277
  • P27 (country of citizenship): India
    Q668
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2. Har Gobind Khorana (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead section (Wikipedia plaintext extract)
    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.
  • Infobox, Born
    9 January 1922
  • Infobox, Died
    9 November 2011
  • Associated With: Marshall W. Nirenberg, Lead section, Har Gobind Khorana
    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.
  • Associated With: Robert W. Holley, Lead section, Har Gobind Khorana
    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.
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