Google on Tuesday honoured Indian-American biochemist and Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana known as the first scientist to chemically synthesise DNA molecules with a doodle marking his 96th birth anniversary. Khorana was born in Raipur which is Kabirwala in present-day Pakistan. He was the youngest of five children. His father Ganpat Rai Khorana worked as a taxation clerk in the British Indian administration. The Khoranas were the only literate family in the village with nearly 100 people. Khorana lived in India until 1945 and then moved to England to study for a Ph.D degree at the University of Liverpool after
