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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I was happy to receive from Phil Sharp and Tom RajBhandary a wonderful biographical memoir that they wrote about our former colleague, the great biological chemist Gobind Khorana.
The story of Gobind’s life and his many scientific discoveries and contributions can’t fail to inspire. Figure 3 in this piece shows a photograph of Gobind designing his next experiments at the blackboard, even as he sips champagne to celebrate his Nobel Prize
(1968). I hope you will enjoy this piece.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">The direct link is:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><a href="https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/khorana-h-gobind.pdf" title="https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/khorana-h-gobind.pdf"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/khorana-h-gobind.pdf</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">The memoir is also featured on the memoirs page on the NAS website:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Amy</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Amy E. Keating
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Jay A. Stein Professor of Biology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Professor of Biological Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Member, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Head, MIT Department of Biology</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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