Indian-American biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for medicine, was on Thursday honoured by a Pakistani university, which announced to set up a Research Chair in his name.
"The Government College University Lahore (GCU) is going to set up a Research Chair at its Chemistry Department in the name of its alumni Prof. Har Gobind Khorana," GCU Vice-Chancellor Prof. Asghar Zaidi said.
Zaidi made the remarks while speaking at a ceremony held at the varsity on Thursday to celebrate the 98th birth anniversary of one of its most eminent alumni of the GCU.
Sharing the inspiring and fascinating story of Prof Khorana, Zaidi said: "A child born in small Raipur village in Multan (now in Pakistan) in 1922 became the world's top biochemist and shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for 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."
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