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]

Venki Ramakrishnan
Ramakrishnan in 2015
62nd President of the Royal Society
Incumbent
Assumed office 2015
Preceded by	Paul Nurse
Personal details
Born	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 1952 (age 71–72)[1] Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India
Citizenship	United Kingdom United States
Spouse(s)	Vera Rosenberry ​ (m. 1975)​ [1]
Children	1 son, 1 stepdaughter[1]
Residence	United Kingdom
Website	www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/venki-ramakrishnan
Alma mater	Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (BSc) University of California, San Diego[2] Ohio University (PhD)
Known for	Structure and function of the ribosome macromolecular crystallography
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009) Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2007) [3] Knight Bachelor (2012) Padma Vibhushan (2010)
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry Biophysics
Institutions	Laboratory of Molecular Biology University of Cambridge[1] Oak Ridge National Laboratory[1] Yale University[1] University of Utah[1] Brookhaven National Laboratory[4]
Thesis	The Green Function Theory of the Ferroelectric Phase Transition in Potassium Dihydrogen-Phosphate (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Tomoyasu Tanaka[1]
Doctoral students	Nathan James
Influences	Peter B. Moore[1] Aaron Klug[1] The Feynman Lectures on Physics[1]

He was born in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India.

Related pages

• List of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry

References

1. "Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - Biography: From Chidambaram to Cambridge: A Life in Science". nobelprize.org. Stockholm. Archived from the original on 2015-04-18.
2. 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. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help) (subscription required)
3. Louis-Jeantet Prize
4. 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.
5. "Venkatraman Ramakrishnan-Facts". Nobelprize.org.