Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 73 |
| Born | Chidambaram |
| India | |
| Known for | crystallography |
| Books | Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome |
| Job | Professor |
| Physicist | |
| Chemist | |
| Structural biologist | |
| Education | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
| The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda | |
| Ohio University | |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Padma Vibhushan | |
| Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine | |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | |
| Spouse | Vera Rosenberry |
| Parents | C. V. Ramakrishnan |
| R. Rajalakshmi | |
| Children | Raman Ramakrishnan |
| Date of birth | April 1,1952 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
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| ID | 457030 |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Life story
Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born British and 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.