Question

Who is the scientist of Indian origin made an important contribution in discovery of triplet codon for 20 amino acids

Answer 1

A scientist of Indian origin who has been awarded Nobel Prize in 1968 for his important contribution in discovery of triplet codons for 20 amino acids

Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) was an Indian American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, 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. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year