Birthday of Har Gobind Khorana

Har Gobind Khorana, was an Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for
Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that helped to
show how the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control
the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz
Prize from Columbia University in the same year.He was awarded by : Nobel Prize & Padma Vibhushan