Venki Ramakrishnan
British-American structural biologist (born 1952) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[3][9][10][11]
Quick Facts 62nd President of the Royal Society, Preceded by ...
Venki Ramakrishnan | |
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62nd President of the Royal Society | |
In office 1 December 2015 – 30 November 2020 | |
Preceded by | Paul Nurse |
Succeeded by | Adrian Smith |
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Born | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 1952 (age 71–72) Chidambaram, Madras State (now Tamil Nadu), India |
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Vera Rosenberry (m. 1975) |
Children | 1[1] |
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Relatives | Lalita Ramakrishnan (sister) |
Residence | United Kingdom |
Website | www2 |
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Alma mater | Ohio University |
Thesis | The Green Function Theory of the Ferroelectric Phase Transition in Potassium Dihydrogen-Phosphate (1976) |
Doctoral advisor | Tomoyasu Tanaka[1][7] |
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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]