![]() ![]() in organic chemistry from the University of Liverpool in 1948. Khorana belonged to the first cohort and obtained a Ph.D. That same year, the Indian government initiated a program that sent talented students abroad for training. Khorana attended the University of Punjab, where he obtained a Masters in Chemistry in 1945. The younger Khorana’s first four years of schooling took place under a tree until his father helped establish a one-room school in their village. In spite of his family’s poverty, Khorana’s father insisted on educating his children. I am writing a biography of Khorana with the hope that his story will inspire young scientists from every background to pursue their dreams of exploration and discovery. Khorana emerged from this background to receive a Nobel Prize in 1968 for deciphering the genetic code that translates DNA sequences into the protein molecules that carry out the functions of living cells. He was 6 before he owned his first pencil. As a child, he had to beg a neighbor for a glowing ember so his mother could light their daily cooking fire. ![]() ![]() The exact date of his birth is not known, because Khorana was born in poverty in a British Indian class that rarely recorded such dates. 2022 marked the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize winning chemist Har Gobind Khorana – or so we think. ![]()
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