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18 Facts About Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was born on 1952 and is an Indian-born British and American structural biologist who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A Steitz and Ada Yonath, "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".

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

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan's mother obtained a PhD in psychology from McGill University in 1959.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan began work on ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow with Peter Moore at Yale University.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is known for his past work on histone and chromatin structure.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was elected a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2002, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003, and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2004.

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In 2007, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was awarded the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine and the Datta Lectureship and Medal of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2010, and has received honorary degrees from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, University of Utah and University of Cambridge.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.

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In 2009, Ramakrishnan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Thomas A Steitz and Ada Yonath.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan received India's second highest civilian honor, the Padma Vibhushan, in 2010.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to Molecular Biology, but does not generally use the title "Sir".

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In 2017, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was included as one of 25 Greatest Global Living Indians by NDTV Channel, India on 14 December 2013.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is internationally recognised for determination of the atomic structure of the 30S ribosomal subunit.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has made substantial contributions to understanding how chromatin is organised, particularly the structure of linker histones and their role in higher order folding.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan married Vera Rosenberry, an author and illustrator of children's books, in 1975.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan's stepdaughter, Tanya Kapka, is a doctor in Oregon, and his son, Raman Ramakrishnan, is a cellist based in New York.

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