Khorana

American  

[koh-rah-nuh, kaw-] / koʊˈrɑ nə, kɔ- /

noun

1. Har Gobind 1922–2011, U.S. biochemist and researcher in genetics, born in India: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1968.

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Khorana Scientific  

/ kō-rä′nə /

1. Indian-born American biochemist. He developed one of the first artificial genes and determined the sequence of nucleic acids for each of the 20 amino acids in the human body. He shared a 1968 Nobel prize for his studies of the genetic code.

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Mr. Woolfson also lingers admiringly on Har Gobind Khorana, a village clerk’s son in British India who went on to synthesize the first fully artificial gene in 1972.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

MUSICAL: Priests played traditional instruments as part of the Shikali festival at Khorana village, Nepal, Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2013

Molecular Biologists Marshall Nirenberg, 41, Har Gobind Khorana, 46, and Robert Holley, 46, were jointly awarded the 1968 Nobel prize for physiology and medicine.

From Time Magazine Archive

As his model, Khorana picked a relatively simple gene from the common yeast cell; its nucleotide sequence is only 77 steps long.

From Time Magazine Archive

An Indian-born chemist, Har Khorana, supplied crucial chemical reagents that made code breaking possible.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee