Har Gobind Khorana dies at 89; biologist, chemist won Nobel Prize
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 01:30
in Biology & Nature
Har Gobind Khorana, who rose from poverty in rural India to become a giant of modern biology, winning the Nobel Prize in 1968 for work that helped decipher the genetic code and explain how cells make proteins, died Nov. 9 in Concord, Mass. He was 89.