Venkat raman ramakrishnan

‘Venki’ Ramakrishnan in his Cambridge lab: ‘Science is collaborative. It shouldn’t be converted into a contest.’ Photograph: Andy Hall for the Observer ‘Venki’ Ramakrishnan in his Cambridge lab: ‘Science is collaborative. It shouldn’t be converted into a contest.’ Photograph: Andy Hall for the Observer W hen Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was told, in October 2009, that he was to be awarded Since the caller was Gunnar Öquist, the Royal Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, his convincing Scandinavian accent is less surprising. It was only when Venki – as the Indian-born biologist is universally known – demanded to speak to Måns Ehrenberg, a scientific colleague and friend, that the truth was revealed. Venki assumed he would not be able to come to the phone, thus revealing the prank. But Ehrenberg was put on the line immediately and repeated to the gobsmacked biochemist that he had indeed won the 2009 Nobel prize for chemistry, which he would share with Thomas Steitz, of Yale University, and Ada Yonath, of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Jerusalem. Venki was to be given the award for working out, between 2000 and 2002, the exact structure of a key part of the ribosome, the tiny molecular machine – found in the cells of our body – that turns the genetic code of living beings into the proteins from which they are made. "I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I ha...

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Share this • Share on Facebook: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 Share this content on Facebook Facebook • Tweet: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 Share this content on Twitter Twitter • Share on LinkedIn: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 Share this content on LinkedIn LinkedIn • Share via Email: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 Share this content via Email Email this page The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 © The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan Prize share: 1/3 © The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan Prize share: 1/3 © The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan Prize share: 1/3 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 was awarded jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" To cite this section MLA style: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2023. Fri. 16 Jun 2023.

Brexit hasn’t happened yet but how is the process affecting science? There are two answers to this. One is that we’ve heard anecdotal evidence that people are leaving or not wanting to come here. But we don’t have any statistical evidence of a brain drain. I would add that it has had a negative impact on the mood. For a long time people outside Britain saw this attractive, outward-facing country – a great place to work. That reputation has been hurt. How many countries could somebody come to relatively late in life and be elected president of their national academy? That shows the kind of Britain we want to get across. I’m hopeful that when all the dust settles, it will continue to be an attractive destination. Airbus CEO Tom Enders “Brexit in any form, soft or hard, light or clean, will be damaging” : would you agree with him on that? Science by its nature has always been an international enterprise and in fact the more prestigious and high performing the lab or institute, the more international it is. It’s very hard for the science community to see any advantages in Brexit. They are pretty blunt about that. There’s an irony in that post -Brexit we will be dependent on science to come up with innovations that could grow the economy at time when we’re taking funding away and making it more difficult for researchers to come here and collaborate … There is, but the knowledge-based economy that’s needed in Britain will have to exist whether we’re in the EU or not. In the long...

SEATTLE: Aside the obligatory stories of initial disbelief on being informed that he had won the Venkatraman ���Venky��� Ramakrishnan (���Ambi��� to family) figured it was too early to call his father and sister in Seattle, where it was 2 a.m. local time, to tell them the good news. His daughter Tanya, a physician in Portland, Oregon, was in the same time zone, and his son Raman, a professional cellist, was traveling on the road and incommunicado. Why, he could not even tell his wife Vera, because she was out walking in their Cambridge neighborhood and she did not have a cell phone. Yeah, that is typical of the family. The Nobel winner does not own a car and rides a bicycle to work. But back in Seattle, Prof C.V.Ramakrishnan���s phone started ringing off the hook at 2 a.m. because son Ambi had listed his father���s home as his U.S address. A CBS reporter was the first to call. ���Are you sure it���s Venky who has won?��� the Prof, himself a distinguished academic (he founded the bio-chem department at Baroda���s M.S.University in 1955), recalls asking. ���There are so many Ramakrishnans even in the U.S.��� He asked them to call Lalitha, Venky���s sister, a microbiologist at the University of Washington, who lives just down the street from him in Seattle���s university area. She asked the reporter who else had won, even as her husband Mark Troll, a chemist, booted up the computer to check the headlines. Told the names of the American and Israeli co-winners, she sighed, ���I...

Share this • Share on Facebook: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – Photo gallery Share this content on Facebook Facebook • Tweet: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – Photo gallery Share this content on Twitter Twitter • Share on LinkedIn: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – Photo gallery Share this content on LinkedIn LinkedIn • Share via Email: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – Photo gallery Share this content via Email Email this page Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Photo gallery The 2009 Nobel Laureates stand for the Swedish national anthem (from left to right): Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George E. Smith, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, Ada E. Yonath, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, Jack W. Szostak, Herta Müller, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2009 Photo: Frida Westholm From left to right: Princess Madeleine, Crown Princess Victoria, Nobel Laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Mrs Vera Rosenberry Ramakrishnan, Hagith Yonath, Nobel Laureate Ada E. Yonath, His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Her Majesty Queen Silvia, Joan Argetsinger Steitz, Nobel Laureate Thomas A. Steitz, and Prince Carl Philip at the Nobel Banquet. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2009 Photo: Orasisfoto The 2009 Nobel Laureates assembled for a group photo during their visit to the Nobel Foundation, 12 December 2009. Back row, left to right: Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Ada E. Yonath and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine Jack W. Szost...

Bengaluru: Less than six months before his death, astrophysicist Venkataraman Radhakrishnan, 82, announced he would set sail on a boat named in his French wife’s honour, to circumnavigate the world solo. This was not to be, but the episode serves as a fitting introduction for a space scientist who deeply loved the deep seas and designed sailboats (and aircraft) as a hobby. Known widely as ‘Rad’, Radhakrishnan was the son of Nobel laureate C.V. Raman and cousin of Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. However, he was also a renowned astrophysicist in his own right, recognised for expanding the field of radio astronomy as well as his work on pulsars. On his 90th birth anniversary, ThePrint remembers Venkataraman Radhakrishan. Education and research Rad was born in Madras on 18 May 1929 to C.V. Raman and Lokasundari Ammal, a year before his father won the Nobel Prize for physics. He studied in Chennai before graduating from Mysore University in 1950 with a BSc in physics — for over four decades, until Amsterdam University conferred an honorary doctorate on him in 1996 — this would be the only degree he had. He subsequently served as a research scholar at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, before a brief stint with In 1955, aged 26, Rad took up a research assistant’s position at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Sweden, where he focussed on the observation and measurement of neutral hydrogen in interstellar space. Over his three years in the country, he bec...

Share this • Share on Facebook: Press release Share this content on Facebook Facebook • Tweet: Press release Share this content on Twitter Twitter • Share on LinkedIn: Press release Share this content on LinkedIn LinkedIn • Share via Email: Press release Share this content via Email Email this page Press release English 7 October 2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom Thomas A. Steitz Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Ada E. Yonath Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome” The ribosome translates the DNA code into life The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 awards studies of one of life’s core processes: the ribosome’s translation of DNA information into life. Ribosomes produce proteins, which in turn control the chemistry in all living organisms. As ribosomes are crucial to life, they are also a major target for new antibiotics. This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry awards Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath for having showed what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at the atomic level. All three have used a method called X-ray crystallography to map the position for each and every one of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome. Inside every cell in all organisms, there are DNA molecules. They contain the blueprints for how a human being, a plant or a bacterium, looks and functions. But the DNA molecu...

Bengaluru: Less than six months before his death, astrophysicist Venkataraman Radhakrishnan, 82, announced he would set sail on a boat named in his French wife’s honour, to circumnavigate the world solo. This was not to be, but the episode serves as a fitting introduction for a space scientist who deeply loved the deep seas and designed sailboats (and aircraft) as a hobby. Known widely as ‘Rad’, Radhakrishnan was the son of Nobel laureate C.V. Raman and cousin of Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. However, he was also a renowned astrophysicist in his own right, recognised for expanding the field of radio astronomy as well as his work on pulsars. On his 90th birth anniversary, ThePrint remembers Venkataraman Radhakrishan. Education and research Rad was born in Madras on 18 May 1929 to C.V. Raman and Lokasundari Ammal, a year before his father won the Nobel Prize for physics. He studied in Chennai before graduating from Mysore University in 1950 with a BSc in physics — for over four decades, until Amsterdam University conferred an honorary doctorate on him in 1996 — this would be the only degree he had. He subsequently served as a research scholar at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, before a brief stint with In 1955, aged 26, Rad took up a research assistant’s position at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Sweden, where he focussed on the observation and measurement of neutral hydrogen in interstellar space. Over his three years in the country, he bec...

Brexit hasn’t happened yet but how is the process affecting science? There are two answers to this. One is that we’ve heard anecdotal evidence that people are leaving or not wanting to come here. But we don’t have any statistical evidence of a brain drain. I would add that it has had a negative impact on the mood. For a long time people outside Britain saw this attractive, outward-facing country – a great place to work. That reputation has been hurt. How many countries could somebody come to relatively late in life and be elected president of their national academy? That shows the kind of Britain we want to get across. I’m hopeful that when all the dust settles, it will continue to be an attractive destination. Airbus CEO Tom Enders “Brexit in any form, soft or hard, light or clean, will be damaging” : would you agree with him on that? Science by its nature has always been an international enterprise and in fact the more prestigious and high performing the lab or institute, the more international it is. It’s very hard for the science community to see any advantages in Brexit. They are pretty blunt about that. There’s an irony in that post -Brexit we will be dependent on science to come up with innovations that could grow the economy at time when we’re taking funding away and making it more difficult for researchers to come here and collaborate … There is, but the knowledge-based economy that’s needed in Britain will have to exist whether we’re in the EU or not. In the long...