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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

 

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