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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Example Sentences

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

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In early drafts of the Doodle shown below, Dahotre appears to have experimented with what sort of science-themed illustrations he could pair with Khorana’s profile.

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A few years later, Khorana went on to construct the first synthetic gene.

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The Google Doodle honors Har Gobind Khorana, who won a Nobel Prize in 1968 for his work on genes and nucleotides, which are the basic structural units of DNA.

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Khorana was the youngest of five children, and his father helped all five learn to read and write, which was uncommon for villagers in Raipur, India at the time.

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