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Google Doodle Celebrates Har Gobind Khorana’s 96th Birthday

Remembering the Nobel prize winning pioneering Indian-American biochemist.

By Subrato Paul | January 9, 2018 filed in Anniversary, Doodle, My India |
Tags: , anniversary, biochemist, birth anniversary, dr khorana, genes, google, google doodle, google logo, har gobind khorana, har gobind khorana video, India, indian-american biochemist, nobel prize, nucleotides, organic chemistry, synthetic gene

Today marks the 96th birth anniversary of Dr Har Gobind Khorana (January 9, 1922 – November 9, 2011), who was a pioneering Indian-American biochemist. He was Nobel Prize Winner for Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for unraveling the nucleotide sequence of RNA and deciphering the genetic code. He is known as a scientist who revolutionized biochemistry with his pioneering work in DNA chemistry. Google today celebrates the 96th Birth Anniversary of Dr Har Gobind Khorana with a doodle.

Nobel Laureates of India

List of laureates of Indian citizen, birth and origin, connections.

By Subrato Paul | October 19, 2014 filed in My India |
Tags: , Amartya Sen, chemistry, cv raman, dalai lama, economic sciences, general india, har gobind khorana, image blog post, India, kailash satyarthi, literature, mahatma gandhi, medicine, mother teresa, nobel laureates, nobel prize, peace, physics, physiology, Rabindranath Tagore, ronald ross, rudyard kipling, subramanyan chandrasekhar, venkatraman ramakrishnan, vs naipaul, wip

The Nobel Prizes are prizes awarded annually to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and economics (established in 1968). From 1913 to 2014, only eight Indians (citizen, birth and origin) have won the Nobel Prize.