Down Memory Lane: Indian Nobel Prize Winners
#Har Gobind Khorana
Har Gobind Khorana was born to Hindu parents in Raipur, a little village in Punjab, which is now part of Eastern Pakistan. The correct date of his birth is not known and according to his documents, it is January 9th, 1922.
Khorana lived in India until 1945, when the award of a Government of India Fellowship made it possible for him to go to England and he studied for a Ph. D. degree at the University of Liverpool.
In 1960 Khorana accepted a position in the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin.
He continued working on nucleotide synthesis and cracking the genetic code. For this work Khorana shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert Holley and Marshall Nirenberg.
#Mother Teresa
On August 27, 1910, a date frequently cited as her birthday, she was baptized as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.
Mother Teresa was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to helping the poor. Mother Teresa won the Peace Nobel in 1979.
Mother Teresa had left her teaching post at a Roman Catholic girls' school in Kolkata in order to devote her life to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of that city. She also received India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work.
