KJCAB, Volume 2, Issue 2, December 2022
Editoral

Hargobind Khorana - the Legendary Biochemist who cracked the Genetic code

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  • Priya Josson Akkara
Priya Josson Akkara
Department of Life Sciences, Kristu Jayanti College (Autonomous), Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560077
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59176/kjcab.v2i2.2261

Published 2022-12-26

Keywords

  • Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize, Genetic Code, Protein Synthesis, Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, Bacteriorho-dopsin.

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Josson Akkara, P. . (2022). Hargobind Khorana - the Legendary Biochemist who cracked the Genetic code. Kristu Jayanti Journal of Core and Applied Biology (KJCAB), 2(2), 51–54. https://doi.org/10.59176/kjcab.v2i2.2261
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Abstract

Har Gobind Khorana, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, would have turned 100 on 9th January, 2022. Many generations of chemists and biologists have been inspired by Gobind's works and intellectual elegance, but high visibility of his success has had a much broader and deeper impact on India. Gobind Khorana is a popular scientific personality in India who represents how edu-cation may assist people to transcend socioeconomic and intellectual barriers. His triumph was fought for, and implausible.

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