Dr. Hargobind Khorana won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1968 for his work on deciphering the genetic code and explaining how it functions in protein synthesis. He shared the prize with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley. Meghnad Saha was a renowned physicist, Dr. Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar was a chemist, and C.V. Raman won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.