Hargobind Khorana won Nobel prize for medicine
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Hargobind Khorana won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for his work on interpreting the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis. He shared the prize with Marshall Nirenberg and Robert Holley.
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True. Har Gobind Khorana, an Indian-American biochemist, shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (along with Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg) for interpreting the genetic code and explaining how it functions in protein synthesis. His work helped show how the sequence of nucleotides in DNA/RNA determines the sequence of amino acids in proteins. This is a well-documented historical fact, so 'True' is unambiguously correct and 'False' is wrong.