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Har Gobind Khorana
Full Name of the recipient | Har Gobind Khorana |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Year of Award | 1968 |
Share in Award | 33.3% |
Award Shared with | Robert W. Holley (33.3%) Marshall W. Nirenberg (33.3%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA |
Place of Birth | Raipur, India IND |
Date of Birth | 9 January 1922 |
Age at the time of Award | 45 years |
Place of Death | Concord, MA, United States USA |
Date of Death | 9 November 2011 |