BIOLOGIST

Har Gobind Khorana

1922 - 2011

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Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) was an Indian-American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.Born in British India, Khorana served on the faculties of three universities in North America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Har Gobind Khorana has received more than 3,664,016 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Har Gobind Khorana is the 120th most popular biologist, the 17th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 19th in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Biologist.

Har gobind khorana is famous for the sweet, fried dough balls.

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  • 71

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  • 5.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Har Gobind Khorana has had the most page views in the with 162,658 views, followed by Hindi (47,717), and Bengali (4,860). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are (205.12%), Sindhi (197.22%), and (121.24%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Har Gobind Khorana ranks 120 out of 1,097. Before him are Hans Christian Gram, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Carl Woese, Edward B. Lewis, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, and Sydney Brenner. After him are Macfarlane Burnet, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Martinus Beijerinck, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Othenio Abel, and Charles Scott Sherrington.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Har Gobind Khorana ranks 52. Before him are Jason Robards, Cornelius Castoriadis, Ademir de Menezes, Leon M. Lederman, Michel Galabru, and Betty White. After him are Robert W. Holley, Juan Antonio Villacañas, Mao Anying, Francesco Rosi, Jake LaMotta, and Blake Edwards. Among people deceased in 2011, Har Gobind Khorana ranks 44. Before him are Jorge Semprún, Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Tomislav Ivić, Baruj Benacerraf, Zdeněk Miler, and Betty Ford. After him are Amy Winehouse, Gunter Sachs, Richard Winters, Leonora Carrington, Aristides Pereira, and Diana Wynne Jones.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Har Gobind Khorana ranks 17 out of 217. Before him are Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Porus (-400), Abdus Salam (1926), Asanga (300), and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928). After him are Ranjit Singh (1780), Aga Khan III (1877), Imran Khan (1952), Dev Anand (1923), Guru Ram Das (1534), and Manmohan Singh (1932).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Pakistan

Among biologists born in Pakistan, Har Gobind Khorana ranks 1. After him are Birbal Sahni (1891).

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