Today’s #google Doodle honors a Nobel Prize-winning DNA researcher
January 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Google’s logo today is a tribute to an Indian-American biochemist who played an important part in figuring out how DNA works.
The Google Doodle honors Har Gobind Khorana, who won a Nobel Prize in 1968 for his work on genes and nucleotides, which are the basic structural units of DNA. He was born on January 9th, 1922, or 96 years ago today. Khorana was the youngest of five children, and his father helped all five learn to read and write, which was uncommon for villagers in Raipur, India at the time.
When Khorana grew up and attended college in the US, he was able to gain scholarships and obtain a doctorate in organic chemistry by 1948, when he was 26 years old. His work took him to England, Switzerland, and Canada, and it was eventually…
