Har Gobind Khorana was born at Raipur in Multan district, a village of about a hundred people, where his family were the only literate household. His father was a patwari, a village revenue clerk.
He took degrees at Punjab University Lahore, then Liverpool on a government scholarship, then worked in Zurich, Cambridge, Vancouver, Wisconsin and MIT.
He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for work on the genetic code and how it specifies protein synthesis. In 1970 his laboratory synthesised the first artificial gene, and in 1976 the first synthetic gene that worked inside a living cell.
He never returned to live in India. His village is in Pakistan.
A patwari's son from a hundred-person village in Multan district worked out how DNA codes for proteins. That fact is not on any Punjab school syllabus on either side of the border.
He did the genetic code work at Wisconsin and later moved to MIT. The 1968 prize was shared with Marshall Nirenberg and Robert Holley.
In 1970 his laboratory completed the first total synthesis of a gene, a yeast transfer RNA gene, which is the foundation of the whole field that followed from it.
There is a memorial lecture in his name and a research programme funded jointly by India and the United States. Raipur in Multan district has nothing.
Nobel Prize biographical materials.