13 Facts About Gobind Khorana

1. In 1968 Har Gobind Khorana shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology with Robert W Holley and Marshall W Nirenberg (1927—) "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.

2. In 1960 Gobind Khorana moved to the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin.

3. In 1952 Gobind Khorana married Esther Elizabeth Sibler, who was born in Switzerland.

4. In 1960 Gobind Khorana moved to the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he became Professor of Biochemistry and co-director of the Institute.

5. In 1968 Har Gobind Khorana shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology with Robert W Holley and Marshall W Nirenberg (1927—) "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.

6. Har Gobind Khorana was born in Raipur on January 9, 1922.

7. Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian organic chemist and cowinner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

8. In 1966, Gobind Khorana was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

9. In 1955, Gobind Khorana learned about Severo Ochoa's discovery of the enzyme polynucleotide phosphorylase and met Arthur Kornberg, who described pioneering research on the enzymatic synthesis of DNA.

10. Har Gobind Khorana made important contributions to this field by building different RNA chains with the help of enzymes.

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

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

13. 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.