Who amongst the following is awarded the Nobel Prize of Medicine in 1968 for the interpretation of genetic code and its function in protein synthesis?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Hargobind Khorana
Har Gobind Khorana, born in 1922 at Raipur in Punjab (now in Pakistan), shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis”. His work showed how the three-letter codons of the genetic code spell out the amino acids of a protein.