Har Gobind Khorana was raised in Raipur, which was part of British India at the time and is today Pakistan. The youngest of five children, his family was one of the few literate families with access to education in Raipur. After receiving his BA and MA in Science from the Punjab University at Lahore in 1945, he left India to earn his PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Liverpool, England. Later, he moved to the United States, where he spent the rest of his life. Khorana joined the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin before earning the Nobel Prize in 1968. Khorana enjoyed hiking, swimming, a home filled with art, and long silent walks in nature. Khorana was an educator, researcher, husband, and father to three.