Nobel prize venkatraman ramakrishnan biography
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Nobel prize venkatraman ramakrishnan biography
Venki Ramakrishnan
British-American structural biologist (born )
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born ) is a British-American structural biologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A.
Steitz and Ada Yonath for research on the structure and function of ribosomes.[6][9][10][11]
Since , he has worked as a group leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, UK and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[12][13][14][15][16] He served as President of the Royal Society from to [17]
Education and early life
Ramakrishnan was born in in Chidambaram in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India.
His parents, Prof. C. V. Ramakrishnan and Prof. Rajalakshmi Ramakrishnan were both scientists,[18][19] and his father was head of the department of biochemistry at the Maharaja Sayajirao