Khorana

Kho·ra·na

[koh-rah-nuh, kaw-]
noun
Har Go·bind [hahr goh-bind] , born 1922, U.S. biochemist and researcher in genetics, born in India: Nobel prize for medicine 1968.
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Khorana Kho·ra·na (kō-rä'nə), Har Gobind. Born 1922.

Indian-born American biochemist. He shared a 1968 Nobel Prize for the study of genetic codes.

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Khorana   (kō-rä'nə)  Pronunciation Key 
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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