# Har Gobind Khorana (@har-gobind-khorana)

Har Gobind Khorana was a biochemist who studied the genetic code. Khorana developed chemical methods for making defined nucleic-acid sequences and used them to help determine how nucleotide triplets specify amino acids.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Har Gobind Khorana's public record._

## Topics

- [Synthetic Genes](/@har-gobind-khorana/synthetic-genes.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Decoding Codons](/@har-gobind-khorana/decoding-codons.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Principal Contribution](/@har-gobind-khorana/principal-contribution.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1968/khorana/facts/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1968/khorana/biographical/
- blog: https://libraries.mit.edu/mithistory/institute/offices/office-of-the-mit-president/har-gobind-khorana/

## Ask this twin

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```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "har-gobind-khorana", "question": "…"}`.