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About Har Gobind Khorana

Dr Har Gobind Khoranaborn in 1922 in Raipur, a small village in Punjab, which is now part of Pakistan.

He was born into a Hindu family as the youngest of five children. Although his family was poor, his father was dedicated to educating his children.

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In fact, Khorana’s family was practically the only literate family in the village of about 100 people.
As a child, Khorana faced challenges due to the family’s poverty. He would wake up early to go around the village looking for a house with smoke coming out of the chimney, and then ask for an ember to take home to light their cooking fire.

Khorana also sat on the steps of the nearby post office and transcribed letters for the mostly illiterate townspeople.
Despite the hardships, Khorana’s father helped establish a single-room school in the village and taught Khorana to read at a young age.

This early education laid the foundation for Khorana’s remarkable journey from an impo