IndiaShining: Venkataraman Ramakrishnan wins Nobel prize in Chemistry for 2009

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Tamil Nadu-born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a senior scientist at the MRC Laborartory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with two others, the Nobel Committee announced today. Born in 1952 in Chidambaram, Ramakrishnan shares the Nobel prize with Thomas E Steitz (US) and Ada E Yonath (Israel) for their "studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". The prize is awarded for the study of the structure and function of the ribosome - the cell's protein factory. The ribosome translates genetic code into proteins - which are the building blocks of all living organisms.
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  • Avatar | written by garfield79 849 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate comment: + -

    Congratulations to Venkataraman, hopefully indians would be able to achieve these kind of feats soon in their own country. But awesome achievement nevertheless.

  • Avatar | written by pisean282311 849 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate comment: + -

    xcellent achievement..congrats to him...


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