| Name(s) |
HAR GOBIND KHORANA |
| Date of
Birth |
January 09, 1922
– Kabirwala (now in Pakistan), Punjab, India. |
| Date of
Death |
November 09, 2011
– Concord, Massachussetts, USA. |
|
Identity |
Indian Scientist in
the field of Molecular Biology |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1966: He became a
naturalized citizen of the United States in 1966, and
subsequently received the National Medal of Science.
- December 12, 1968: Khorana
and his team delivered their Nobel lecture on this day.
- 1968: He shared the 1968
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W.
Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley. He and Nirenberg were also
awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia
University in the same year.
- 1968: He received Distinguished
Service Award from Watumull Foundation, Hawaii.
- 1971: American Academy of
Achievement Award, Pennsylvania.
- 1971: He became a foreign
member of USSR Academy of Sciences.
- 1972: He was decorated with
PADMA VIBHUSHAN Award from India. During the same year, he
also received the J.C. Bose Medal.
- 1974: He became the
Honorary Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society.
- 2007: The University of
Wisconsin-Madison, the Government of India (Department of
Biotechnology), and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
jointly created the Khorana Program in 2007, with a mission
to build a seamless community of scientists, industrialists,
and social entrepreneurs in the United States and India. The
program is focused on three objectives:
- Providing graduate and undergraduate students
with a transformative research experience,
- engaging partners in rural development and
food security, and
- facilitating public-private partnerships between the
U.S. and India.
- 2009: He was hosted by the
Khorana Program and honoured at the 33rd Steenbock Symposium
in Madison, Wisconsin.
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