Venkatraman ramakrishnan nobel prize

Venki Ramakrishnan

British-American structural biologist (born 1952)

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is a British-American structural biologist. He shared the 2009 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 1999, 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 2015 to 2020.[17]

Education and early life

Ramakrishnan was born in 1952 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 University of Baroda.[1][20] At the time o

Venki Ramakrishnan, Ph.D.

You grew up among scientists, not only your parents, but other scientists visiting your home.  How did that influence you?

Venki Ramakrishnan: Well, I have to be honest.  I was something of a rebel as a school kid.  There were about three or four grades when I just refused to study, even for exams, and was in the bottom third of my class. And my parents were really worried because I had gone from being at the top of my class to the bottom third.

I thought their life was sort of interesting because they would always travel to interesting places, and all these people from America and England and other parts of Europe would come and visit.  So I thought, “This is sort of an interesting life,” but I didn’t think that I would actually be a scientist.  To some extent, I thought if I went in that direction, I would rather be an engineer.  I thought I’d want to be an electronic engineer or something like that.

But that changed in the last couple of years of high school.  Even then, I wanted to be an engineer, but then I didn’t get into the — there are these

History Today in Medicine – Dr. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan

CME INDIA Presentation by ⚜ Dr. M. Gowri Sankar, MD, Senior Assistant Professor, Dept. of General Medicine, Government Medical College and ESI Hospital, Coimbatore.

Today’s History Feature:

Dr. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan

🇮🇳 The Pride of India 🇮🇳

(Born – April 5, 1952)

💠Indian-Born Physicist & Molecular Biologist

His contributions…

🔸Dr. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan is popularly known as Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan. He was born in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu.

🔸His father was a scholar with a Doctorate in Biochemistry and his mother was also a scholar with Doctorate in Psychology.

🔸His father got appointed as the Head of Department of Biochemistry at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. So, his family moved to Baroda when he was young. In fact, Ramakrishnan was highly inspired by his parents.

🔸Actually, he wanted to be a scientist, so he

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