Har Gobind Khorana papers
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of research and laboratory notebooks relating to DNA research.
Dates
- circa 1970-2006
Creator
- Khorana, Har Gobind, 1922-2011 (Person)
Access note
This collection is open.
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Biography
Har Gobind Khorana, BSc, M.S., University of the Punjab; PhD, University of Liverpool, 1948, was appointed to the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1970 in the Department of Biology. He shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1968 for investigations of the relationship of nucleic acids and genes in the study of the genetic code. Later research focused on the molecular mechanisms of visual transduction in vertebrate photoreceptor cells.
MIT News Office obituary, 2011
Extent
26.2 Cubic Feet (26 record cartons, 1 half manuscript box)
Language of Materials
English
Location
Materials are stored off-site. Advance notice is required for use.
Processing Information note
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- Biology -- Study and teaching Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Khorana, Har Gobind, 1922-2011
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Creator
- Khorana, Har Gobind, 1922-2011 (Person)
- Title
- Preliminary Inventory to the Papers of Har Gobind Khorana
- Status
- Ready For Review
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2021 July 23: Edited by Lana Mason for compliance with DACS single-level optimum requirements.
Repository Details
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