Nobel prize winner har gobind khorana biography

  • nobel prize winner har gobind khorana biography

    • ProfessorHar GobindKhorana

    Born9th January, 1922 (Raipur, Punjab, British India) - Died9th December, 2011 (Concord, Massachusetts, United States)

    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 artificial genes and methods that anticipated the invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) process, a biochemical technology used to amplify a single or a few copies of a piece of DNA.

    Har Gobind Khorana working in his laboratory at Wisconsin-Madison, late 1960s. (Photo credit: University of Wisconsin-Madison)

    Family

    Har Gobind Khorana was the youngest of five children, one girl and four boys. His parents were Hindu and lived in Raipur, a small village inhabited by 100 people, that is based in the Punjab, a region allocated to Pakistan after the partition of British India. It was here that Khorana was born. Khorana's father,