The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Har Gobind Khorana
Title:
Professor of Biology and Chemistry
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge,Massachusetts 02139 USA
Gender:
Male
Year Deceased:
2011
Award Discipline:
Biological Sciences
Award Year:
1987
Citation:
"For his innovative contributions that significantly contributed to our understanding of gene structure, membrane function and vision and for the work stimulated by his research which has had a major impact on the biological and chemical sciences."
Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on June 25, 1987.
Nobel Laureate:
Physiology or Medicine, 1968