Google Doodle honours scientist Har Gobind Khorana

New Delhi, Jan 09: Google has dedicated Tuesday's doodle to Indian-American scientist and Nobel Prize winner Har Gobind Khorana on his 96th birth anniversary.

Known for his comprehensive work on DNA and for constructing first synthetic gene, Khorana, along with two other scientists, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for research on nucleotides and genes.

Khorana was born in Raipur, British India (now Pakistan), his initial education was done at home, where his father taught him to read and write.

"Together, they discovered that the order of nucleotides in our DNA determines which amino acids are built. These amino acids form proteins, which carry out essential cell functions," Google said in a post.