TNPSC Thervupettagam
April 13 , 2022 960 days 720 0
  • The year 2022 marks the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Har Gobind Khorana.
  • He was born on January 9, 1922, in Raipur, India [now Raipur, Pakistan].
  • He began research on nucleic acids during a fellowship at the University of Cambridge (1951) under Sir Alexander Todd.
  • He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley.
  • The Indian government awarded Khorana the Padma Vibhushan in 1969.

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