Har Gobind Khorana
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Har Gobind Khorana 🇮🇳

हर गोबिन्द खोराना
Biochemist, Nobel Laureate, Synthetic Biology Pioneer
Born Jan 09, 1922 🇮🇳 Raipur, India
Passed Away Nov 09, 2011 Concord, United States
Lifespan 89 years old
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Archival Overview

Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for deciphering the genetic code and later synthesized the world's first artificial gene.

Biographical Record

Har Gobind Khorana was born in rural Punjab, British India, and studied chemistry at Punjab University in Lahore before earning his doctorate at the University of Liverpool. After postdoctoral research in Zurich and Cambridge under Lord Todd, he established a world-renowned laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Khorana developed chemical methods to synthesize defined chains of polyribonucleotides, conclusively demonstrating how triplet codons direct specific amino acids during protein synthesis. Moving to MIT, he constructed the world's first functional synthetic gene (a yeast tRNA gene) in 1972, laying the cornerstone of modern synthetic biology and biotechnology.

Key Life Milestones

1968

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Shared the Nobel Prize with Marshall Nirenberg and Robert Holley for cracking the nucleotide triplet genetic code.

1972

Synthesis of the First Artificial Gene

Synthesized the first complete, functional synthetic gene, founding the field of genetic engineering.

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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Concord, United States
GPS: 42.4639, -71.3486
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