Har Gobind Khorana, an Indian-born American scientist, got the Nobel Prize in 1968 in the field of _______.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Medicine
Har Gobind Khorana shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg for their work on the genetic code, that is, how the sequence of bases in DNA and RNA decides the order of amino acids in a protein. Khorana was born in Raipur, in the Punjab of undivided India, and later worked in the USA.