HG Khorana is the only India-born Medicine Nobel Laureate
Indian-American biochemist Har Gobind Khorana jointly won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis". In 1972, Khorana developed the first artificial gene, whose functioning he later demonstrated within a bacterial cell. Born in Punjab in 1922, the MIT professor passed away aged 89 in Massachusetts, US.