Molecular biologist
Har Gobind Khorana
Indian American biochemist who worked out how the genetic code is read, and built the first synthetic gene.
Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.
- Born
- 1922-01-09, Raipur, PakistanA Monday
- Died
- 2011-11-09, Concord, USAA Wednesday, aged 89
- At birth
- Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Taurus
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
Died
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1922-01-09, Raipur, Pakistan · time unknown, noon chart
Asia/Karachithe zone used then
Asia/KarachiThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 18°14′ | Direct |
| Moon | Taurus | 21°07′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 25°56′ | Direct |
| Venus | Capricorn | 10°47′ | Direct |
| Mars | Scorpio | 7°59′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Libra | 17°56′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Libra | 7°32′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Pisces | 6°56′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Leo | 15°17′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Cancer | 8°49′ | Retrograde |
Death Chart
2011-11-09, Concord, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Scorpio | 16°56′ | Direct |
| Moon | Taurus | 4°34′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Sagittarius | 9°01′ | Direct |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 9°07′ | Direct |
| Mars | Leo | 29°15′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Taurus | 3°44′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Libra | 23°24′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Aries | 1°01′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Aquarius | 28°08′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Capricorn | 5°37′ | Direct |
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Har Gobind Khorana was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.