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Har Gobind Khorana

1922 - 2011

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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 British India, Khorana served on the faculties of three universities in North America. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Har Gobind Khorana is the 201st most popular biologist (down from 120th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Biologist.

Har gobind khorana is famous for the sweet, fried dough balls.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Har Gobind Khorana ranks 201 out of 1,097. Before him are Jack Horner, Walther Flemming, Michel Adanson, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Hermann Schlegel, and Joseph Banks. After him are César Milstein, Ludwig Reichenbach, Wilhelm Johannsen, George C. Williams, Hans Driesch, and George Wald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Har Gobind Khorana ranks 66. Before him are Ugo Tognazzi, Blake Edwards, Francesco Rosi, Ken Noritake, Bernardin Gantin, and Lucian Freud. After him are Mao Anying, Oskar Werner, Marek Edelman, Melvin Laird, Leo Tindemans, and Toots Thielemans. Among people deceased in 2011, Har Gobind Khorana ranks 64. Before him are Itamar Franco, Diana Wynne Jones, Jorge Semprún, Frans Sammut, Roberts Blossom, and Lucian Freud. After him are Salmaan Taseer, Cliff Robertson, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, Bubba Smith, Joe Simon, and Michael Gough.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Har Gobind Khorana ranks 33 out of 217. Before him are Aga Khan III (1877), Zafarullah Khan Jamali (1944), Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1178), Asif Ali Zardari (1955), Kabir Bedi (1946), and Ranjit Singh (1780). After him are Khushal Khattak (1613), Muhammad Khan Junejo (1932), Malala Yousafzai (1997), Reginald Dyer (1864), Bahlul Lodi (1406), and Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Pakistan

Among biologists born in Pakistan, Har Gobind Khorana ranks 1. After him are Birbal Sahni (1891).

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