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Google Doodle - Har Gobind Khorana
January 9 , 2018
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- Google celebrated the 96th birth anniversary of Indian-American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, with a doodle.
- Har Gobind Khorana was born on 9 January, 1922 in Rajpur, British India (today Kabirwalain Pakistan).
- Khorana was known for his extensive research on DNA and also for constructing the first synthetic gene.
- Khorana’s work on this field was centred around building different RNA chains with the help of enzymes. Using these enzymes, he was able to produce proteins.
- Khorana and two other scientists - Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg - were awarded The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for “their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis".
- In the early 1970s, Dr.Khorana constructed the world’s first artificial gene.
- Khorana was elected as Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1978.
- He was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan.
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