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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

British-American structural biologist

Born: American

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 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.

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. He served as President of the Royal Society from 2015 to 2020.

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  1. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is born

    Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, American british-american structural biologist, known for british-american structural biologist, was born on 1953-04-01.

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