Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2009
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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2009
for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
Citizenship
United StatesUnited States
Languages
English
date of birth
4/4/1952
place of birth
Chidambaram
Age
74 years
occupation
  • Nobel Prize winner
  • biophysicist
  • molecular biologist
  • biochemist
  • chemist
  • biologist
field of work
  • computational biology
  • biochemistry
  • molecular biology
educated at
  • Ohio University
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • academic major: physics
    • end time: 1976
  • Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
  • University of California, San Diego
employer
  • Laboratory of Molecular Biology
  • Yale University
    • start time: 1978
    • end time: 1982
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
    • start time: 1983
    • end time: 1995
  • University of Utah School of Medicine
    • start time: 1995
    • end time: 1999
position held
  • President of the Royal Society
    • start time: 2015
    • end time: 2020
member of
  • Royal Society of London
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 5/26/2010
doctoral student
  • William M Clemons
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