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Har Gobind Khorana Google Doodle: Indian American Biochemist

Har Gobind Khorana Google Logo

Today on Google’s home page is a special Google Doodle, logo, for the noble prize winner, Indian American biochemist who was the first to demonstrate the role of nucleotides in protein synthesis, Har Gobind Khorana.

Har Gobind Khorana was born on January 9, 1922 in Raipur, Pakistan and died on November 9, 2011, Concord, Massachusetts at the age of 89. Throughout his professional career he has won many awards including:

Nobel Prize in Medicine (1968)
Gairdner Foundation International Award (1980)
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
ForMemRS (1978)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
Padma Vibhushan
Willard Gibbs Award (1974)

Google wrote:

The Doodler on this Google Doodle was Rohan Dahotre.

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