April 13 , 2022
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- 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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