Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Venki Ramakrishnan
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); Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India
Citizenship	United Kingdom; United States;
Spouse(s)	Vera Rosenberry (m. 1975)
Children	1 son, 1 stepdaughter
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; 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) ; Knight Bachelor (2012); Padma Vibhushan (2010);
	Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry; Biophysics;
Institutions	Laboratory of Molecular Biology; University of Cambridge; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Yale University; University of Utah; Brookhaven National Laboratory;
Thesis	The Green Function Theory of the Ferroelectric Phase Transition in Potassium Dihydrogen-Phosphate (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Tomoyasu Tanaka
Doctoral students	Nathan James
Influences	Peter B. Moore; Aaron Klug; The Feynman Lectures on Physics;

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]

Related pages

↑ ^1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 "Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - Biography: From Chidambaram to Cambridge: A Life in Science". nobelprize.org. Stockholm. Archived from the original on 2015-04-18.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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)
↑ Louis-Jeantet Prize
↑ 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.
↑ "Venkatraman Ramakrishnan-Facts". Nobelprize.org.

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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]