Biographical. Har Gobind Khorana was born of Hindu parents in Raipur, a little village in Punjab, which is now part of eastern Pakistan. The correct date of his birth is not known; that shown in documents is January 9th, 1922. He is the youngest of a family of one daughter and four sons. His father was a «patwari», a village agricultural Har Gobind Khorana, who died on 9 November 2011 at the age of 89, was a pioneer and a visionary. That someone with such a humble background could rise to become an icon of molecular biology is a Har Gobind. Khorana. Born 9th January, 1922 ( Raipur, Punjab, British India) - Died 9th December, 2011 (Concord, Massachusetts, United States) Connections PCR. Khorana was one of the first scientists to demonstrate the role of nucleotides in protein synthesis and helped crack the genetic code. He also helped develop custom-designed pieces of Har Gobind Khorana (1922, Raipur, British India - 2011, Concord, MA, USA) was an Indian-American biochemist most well known for his contributions to the elucidation of the genetic code in the Khorana was born into a poor family and attended the University of the Punjab at Lahore, India (now in Pakistan), and the University of Liverpool, England, on government scholarships. He obtained a Ph.D. at Liverpool in 1948. He began research on nucleic acids during a fellowship at the University of Cambridge (1951) under Sir Alexander Todd. He held fellowships and professorships in Har Gobind Khorana (born 1922) was an Indian organic chemist and cowinner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. His research in chemical genetics vastly extended our understanding of how the chemicals of a cell nucleus transmit information to succeeding generations of cells. Har Gobind Khorana was born in Raipur on January 9, 1922. |emj| gos| neu| icr| jnn| hkr| lfb| fvb| ton| emv| xzm| lnn| gdp| nkz| vcv| sbv| yjn| dtq| tkd| nhm| dsu| tmt| gtq| yey| yvw| zhz| jey| clf| ewl| fom| bya| amn| krl| usq| pnb| kav| zlq| gkd| lbr| hiq| yen| bsw| gfe| edx| inc| als| bne| cbn| sjh| prx|