Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan was born 1952 in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India. He is a structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. He received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". He moved to Baroda in Gujarat state at the age of three, for his schooling, except for spending 1960–61 in Adelaide, Australia. Following his Pre-Science at Baroda, he did his undergraduate studies in the same university on a National Science Talent Scholarship, graduating with a B.Sc. in Physics in 1971. Ramakrishnan began work on ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow with Peter Moole at Yale University. Besides the Nobel, Ramakrishnan is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of EMBO and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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