Har Gobind Khorana - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1968
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Har Gobind Khorana

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1968
for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis
Citizenship
British Raj British Raj Dominion of India Dominion of India India India United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
1/9/1922
place of birth
Raipur
date of death
11/9/2011
place of death
Concord
Lived
89 years
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1973
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Society of London
  • The World Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
employer
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • University of Cambridge
  • ETH Zurich
  • University of British Columbia
educated at
  • Government College University
  • University of the Punjab
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Cambridge
field of work
  • molecular biology
occupation
  • biologist
  • university teacher
  • geneticist
  • chemist
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