Delhi Police Constable Exam Model Paper 9

Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-born American biochemist.

• He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1968.
• He shared the Nobel Prize with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley.
• The Nobel Prize is awarded for his research that shows how the nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins.
• He also received the Albert Lasker basic medical research award in 1968.
• He was honoured with the ' National Medal of Science ' of the United States in 1987.