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Har Gobind Khorana
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Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and 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.
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Shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for interpreting the genetic code; Khorana's own lead names Nirenberg and Holley together, no separate detail on a direct joint project distinct from the shared prize.
Shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for interpreting the genetic code; Khorana's own lead names Nirenberg and Holley together, no separate detail on a direct joint project distinct from the shared prize.
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1. Har Gobind Khorana (Wikipedia)
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was an Indian-American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and 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.
1. Har Gobind Khorana (Wikipedia)
1. Har Gobind Khorana (Wikipedia)
1. Har Gobind Khorana (Wikipedia)
WikipediaAssociated With: Marshall W. Nirenberg, Lead section, Har Gobind KhoranaQuote, Associated With: Marshall W. Nirenberg, Lead section, Har Gobind Khorana
he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins.
1. Har Gobind Khorana (Wikipedia)
WikipediaAssociated With: Robert W. Holley, Lead section, Har Gobind KhoranaQuote, Associated With: Robert W. Holley, Lead section, Har Gobind Khorana
he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins.
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