biography
| name: |
Khorana, Har Gobind
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pronunciation:
[korahna]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1922– )
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| biography:
| Molecular biologist, born in Raipur, India (now Pakistan). He was a research fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (1948–9) and Cambridge University (1950–2) before moving to the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) (1952–9). There he received international recognition for improving the method of synthesis of acetyl coenzyme A, necessary for cellular metabolism. At the University of Wisconsin (1960–70), he determined the sequence of DNA nucleotide triplets which code for 20 amino acids. This research won Khorana (with molecular biologists Robert Holley and Marshall Nirenberg) the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. In 1970 he synthesized the first artificial gene, and then relocated to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he continued to make major contributions to molecular biology. |
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