16 Facts About Gobind Khorana

Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian American biochemist.

Gobind Khorana became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1966, and received the National Medal of Science in 1987.

Gobind Khorana's father was a patwari, a village agricultural taxation clerk in the British Indian government.

Gobind Khorana lived in British India until 1945, when he moved to England to study organic chemistry at the University of Liverpool on a Government of India Fellowship.

Gobind Khorana worked for nearly a year on alkaloid chemistry in an unpaid position.

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Gobind Khorana returned to England on a fellowship to work with George Wallace Kenner and Alexander R Todd on peptides and nucleotides.

Gobind Khorana moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, with his family in 1952 after accepting a position with the British Columbia Research Council at University of British Columbia.

Gobind Khorana was excited by the prospect of starting his own lab, a colleague later recalled.

In 1960 Gobind Khorana accepted a position as co-director of the Institute for Enzyme research at the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Gobind Khorana became a professor of biochemistry in 1962 and was named Conrad A Elvehjem Professor of Life Sciences at Wisconsin–Madison.

Gobind Khorana did this by extending the above to long DNA polymers using non-aqueous chemistry and assembled these into the first synthetic gene, using polymerase and ligase enzymes that link pieces of DNA together, as well as methods that anticipated the invention of polymerase chain reaction .

Gobind Khorana's invention have become automated and commercialized so that anyone now can order a synthetic oligonucleotide or a gene from any of a number of companies.

Gobind Khorana brought the power of chemical synthesis to bear on deciphering the genetic code, relying on different combinations of trinucleotides.

The mission of the Gobind Khorana Program is to build a seamless community of scientists, industrialists, and social entrepreneurs in the United States and India.

In 2009, Gobind Khorana was hosted by the Gobind Khorana Program and honored at the 33rd Steenbock Symposium in Madison, Wisconsin.

Gobind Khorana died on 9 November 2011, in Concord, Massachusetts, at the age of 89.