On Tuesday Google celebrated the 96th birthday of the renowned Indian-American biochemist who is most prominently known for his work towards DNA.Tuesday’s Google Doodle was drawn by Bangalore-based illustrator Rohan Dahotre which celebrates Dr Khorana’s pioneering work in understanding our DNA.
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“Today’s Doodle celebrates Har Gobind Khorana, an Indian-American biochemist whose passion for science started under a tree in the small village of Raipur, India, and grew into Nobel Prize-winning research on nucleotides and genes,” said Google.
1.Born in 1922 at Raipur in today’s Pakistan it was his father who instilled in him the importance of learning which was not common for a village child at that time.
2.He won Scholarship which helped him to climb the ladder of success as a biochemist.
3. Dr Khorana conducted research at universities in England, Switzerland, and Canada, and it was at the University of Wisconsin that he and two fellow researchers received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968.
4.Marshall Nirenberg, Har Gobind Khorana, and Robert Holley shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. Nirenberg and Khorana cracked the genetic code. Holley sequenced and deduced the structure of the first tRNA molecule.
5. He is also notable for the synthetic DNA developed by him.
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