Har Gobind Khorana
1922 – 2011 · aged 89
Indian-American molecular biologist (1922-2011)
- Born
- 9 Jan 1922 · Raipur
- Died
- 9 Nov 2011 · Concord
Life timeline
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- 9 Jan 1922BornBorn in Raipur
- 1967AwardDannie Heineman Prize
- 1968AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- 1968AwardLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize
- 1968AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1968AwardRemsen Award
- 1969AwardACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,
- 1969AwardPadma Vibhushan in science & engineering
- 1974AwardWillard Gibbs Award
- 1978AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1980AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
- 1987AwardNational Medal of Science
- 1994AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Miami
- 9 Nov 2011DiedDied in Concord
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1922 – 2011).
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
Biography
Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) 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.
Born in Raipur, Punjab (during the British Raj), Khorana served on the faculties of three universities in North America. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1966, and received the National Medal of Science in 1987.
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