Har Gobind Khorana

Har Gobind Khorana was born in Raipur, Punjab, (now in Pakistan) on 9 January 1922 His father was a patwari, a village agricultural taxation clerk in the BritishIndian system of government Har Gobind did his schooling from the DAV High School in Multan He received his BSc and MSc degrees from the Punjab University in Lahore Khorana lived in India until 1945, when the award of a Government of India Fellowship made it possible for him to go to England and he studied for a Ph D degree at the University of Liverpool
Khorana spent a postdoctoral year (19481949) at the Eidgen