Bottom to the Peak

I salute another Indian brain who breathed his last in Concord, Massachusetts, USA on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 after achieveing Nobel Prize in 1968 for his role in deciphering the genetic code along with two others. He was Har Gobind Khorana who rose from a childhood of poverty in India to become a world-famous bio-chemist in his times. He died at the age of 89 while his life-partner Esther Elizabeth Sibler predeceased him ten years ago "who in fact brought a consistent sense of purpose into my life at a time when, after six years' absence from the country of birth, I felt out of place everywhere and at home nowhere". Dr Khorana became an American citizen in 1966. He joined the MIT faculty in 1970 and retired in 2007 as a professor emeritus.

A genius finds a place in history invariably whether in homeland or abroad depending on his contributions to the society he belongs to or to the humanity as a whole. Let his soul rest in peace.