Dr. Har Gobind Khorana

Personal Profile

• Common Name:

  Hargobind Khorana

• Date of Birth:

  January 9, 1922

• Place of Birth:

  Raipur, Multan, Punjab, British India

• Sex:

  Male

• Nationality:

  U.S.

• Religion:

  Hindu

• Education:

  D.A.V. Multan High School
  Finished his B.Sc. from Punjab University, Lahore in 1943 and M.Sc from Punjab University in 1945
  University of Liverpool, 1945
  After earning a PhD in 1948, he continued his postdoctoral studies at the Eidgenössische. Technische Hochschule in Zürich (1948-49)
  In 1952 he went to the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and in 1960 moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Address:

  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  

Family

• Spouse:

  Esther Elizabeth Sibler

• Son:

  Dave Roy

• Daughter:

  Julia Elizabeth
  Emily Anne

Career

• Profession:

  Indian-American Molecular Biologist

• Claim to Fame:

  First to demonstrate the role of Nucleotides in protein synthesis

• Debut:

  Alfred Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1970

Awards

Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University
Lasker Award, 1967
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize 1968
Nobel Prize in Medicine (1968)
National Medal of Science 1987