HG Khorana is the only India-born Medicine Nobel Laureate
Born in Punjab on January 9, 1922, 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". Khorana also developed the first artificial gene in 1972, whose functioning he demonstrated within a bacterial cell. Khorana passed away in 2011 in the US, aged 89.