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S.N. Bose Har Gobind Khorana "Although poor, my father was dedicated to educating his children and we were practically the only literate family in the village inhabited by about 100 people." - Har Gobind Khorana Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian American biochemist. He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins. Early Life and Education Khorana was born to Krishna Devi Khorana and Ganpat Rai Khorana in Raipur, a village in Punjab, British India in a Punjabi Hindu family. He did his schooling from D.A.V. (Dayanand Anglo-Vedic) High School in Multan, in West Punjab. He studied at the Punjab University in Lahore, with the assistance of scholarships, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1943 and a Master of Science degree in 1945 . In 1945...

S.N. Bose Satyendra Nath Bose Satyendra Nath Bose was among the few early scientists who understood the meaning and importance of Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity, an alumnus of University of Calcutta whose records are yet to be broken and a polymath who had a wide range of interests in varied fields, including physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, mineralogy, philosophy, arts, literature, and music. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, collaborating with Albert Einstein in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he was awarded India's second highest civilian award - the Padma Vibhushan , in 1954 by the Government of India. Early Life Bose was born on 1st January, 1894 and educat...