Biographical Memoir published on Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Laureate and Former Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry
The memoir was written by Phillip A. Sharp, Institute Professor Emeritus, and Uttam L. RajBhandary, Lester Wolfe Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology.
A biographical memoir on the inimitable Har Gobind Khorana has been written by Phillip A. Sharp, Institute Professor and Professor of Biology Emeritus and Intramural Faculty, Koch Institute, and Uttam L. RajBhandary, the Lester Wolfe Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology and published online via the National Academy of Sciences.
Khorana, a Nobel Laureate who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert Holley and Marshall Nirenberg “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis”, joined the MIT faculty in 1970. He remained the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry until transitioning to Emeritus status in 2007.
Sharp and RajBhandary’s biography encompasses Khorana’s incredible life, which began in a small village in India, and culminated in his death in 2011, with nearly nine decades of illustrious discovery and invaluable contributions in between.
