The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009
Awarded on: 2009-10-07
"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
Affiliations:
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology – Cambridge, United Kingdom
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Born: 1952-00-00 in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India
Gender: male
Field: British-American structural biologist (born 1952)
Biography
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 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.