The Khorana lab was able to show that triplet sequences encode specific amino acids, corroborating the work of Marshall Nirenberg who was to share the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1968 with Gobind..

Har Gobind Khorana, (born January 9, 1922?, Raipur, India [now Raipur, Pakistan]—died November 9, 2011, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.), Indian-born American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that helped to show how the nucleotides in nucleic acids.

Har Gobind Khorana - First person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in the field of medicine (1968) Dr. Hargovind Khurana was an Indian-American scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1968 for demonstrating the role of nucleotides in protein synthesis.