Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan (born 1952)[2] is an Indian-born-American-British structural biologist. He received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.[5]
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 Ramakrishnan in 2015 | |
| 62nd President of the Royal Society | |
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| Preceded by | Paul Nurse |
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| Born | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 1952 (age 71–72)[1] Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India |
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| Spouse(s) | Vera Rosenberry (m. 1975) [1] |
| Children | 1 son, 1 stepdaughter[1] |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Website | www2 |
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| Thesis | The Green Function Theory of the Ferroelectric Phase Transition in Potassium Dihydrogen-Phosphate (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | Tomoyasu Tanaka[1] |
| Doctoral students | Nathan James |
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He was born in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India.
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References
- "Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - Biography: From Chidambaram to Cambridge: A Life in Science". nobelprize.org. Stockholm. Archived from the original on 2015-04-18.
- Anon (2015). Ramakrishnan, Sir Venkatraman. Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U45543.
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- Cerf, Corinne; Lippens, Guy; Muyldermans, Serge; Segers, Alain; Ramakrishnan, V.; Wodak, Shoshana J.; Hallenga, Klaas; Wyns, Lode (1993). "Homo- and heteronuclear two-dimensional NMR". Biochemistry. 32 (42): 11345–11351. doi:10.1021/bi00093a011. PMID 8218199.
- "Venkatraman Ramakrishnan-Facts". Nobelprize.org.
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