Google on Tuesday marked the 96th birth anniversary of Indian-American Nobel Prize-holder and biochemist  Dr. Har Gobind Khorana, with a sincere doodle. Dr. Khorana was recognized for his all-embracing research on DNA and also for creating the first synthetic gene.

 Dr. Khorana along with two other scientists - Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg – were bestowed with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for “their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis".

 He was born in 1922 in the village of Raipur, Punjab that is now in Pakistan. His love for science set in motion at an early age and that was credited to his father who considered the value of education. Dr. Khorana got hold of a degree in Punjab University in Lahore and resided in British India till 1945 then he moved to England for his higher studies in the Ph.D programme at the University of Liverpool.

He shifted to Vancouver in Canada In 1952 where he started his thorough research on DNA, at the University of British Columbia after this Dr. Khorana moved to the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin In 1960.

The Nobel Prize was awarded for the scientists’ discovery that the order of nucleotides in our DNA that finds out which amino acids are built. These amino acids form proteins. In the 1950s, it was well-known that genetic information is transferred from DNA to Ribonucleic acid (RNA), to protein. One sequence of three nucleotides in DNA corresponds to a certain amino acid within a protein. Dr. Khorana’s research work on this field was centered on constructing different RNA chains with the aid of enzymes. With the help of these enzymes, he was able to generate proteins.

Early on the 1970s, Dr. Khorana created the world’s first artificial gene. In 1978 Dr. Khorana was elected as Foreign Member of the Royal Society. He was also received the Padma Vibhushan by Indian Govt.

In 2011 He passed away at age of 89 in Concord, Massachusetts.