Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan (born: 1952) is an Indian-born American an Breetish structural biologist, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wi Thomas A. Steitz an Ada E. Yonath, "for studies o the structur an function o the ribosome".[1] He currently wirks at the MRC Laboratory o Molecular Biology in Cambridge, Ingland.[2][3]


Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Born1952 (age 71–72)
Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, Indie
ResidenceUnitit Kinrick
CitizenshipUnitit States an Unitit Kinrick
Alma materMaharaja Sayajirao Varsity o Baroda
Ohio Varsity
Varsity o Californie, San Diego
Kent forStructur an function o the ribosome; macromolecular crystallography
AwairdsLouis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2007)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)
Padma Vibhushan (2010)
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry an Biopheesics
InstitutionsMRC Laboratory o Molecular Biology, Cambridge, Ingland
Trinity College, Cambridge

References

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  1. "2009 Chemistry Nobel Laureates". Nobel Foundation. 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
  2. Ramakrishnan, V (20 September 2011). "Profile of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan. Interview by Prashant Nair". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108 (38): 15676–8. PMID 21914843.
  3. "Venki Ramakrishnan Home Page". Laboratory of Molecular Biology. 2009. Archived frae the original on 21 Apryle 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2009.