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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 DateSourced to the subject's own account
1922-01-09 1
Death DateSourced to the subject's own account
2011-11-09 1
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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.

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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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  • 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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