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Written on the occasion of his 100th birthday, this is a personal account of my time as a graduate student with Nobel laureate, H. Gobind Khorana, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1996 to 2000.
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Klein-Seetharaman, J. Gobind’s last graduate student. Biophys Rev 15, 75–88 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-023-01047-8
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