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One more India born bags novel prize as Dr Venkatraman “Venky” Ramakrishnan won noble prize for his valuable work on life proteins.
India-bornwhose quest for scientific excellence took him from undergraduate schools in India to graduate and post-doc universities in the US and then research in the UK, was jointly awarded the chemistry Nobel Prize on Wednesday for work on proteins that control life. Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, 58, had his early education in the town of Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, and Baroda, Gujarat, before went to the US. He later moved to US. The Swedish Nobel Committee awarded the prize to Dr Ramakrishnan, who is currently affiliated with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, for his work on protein-producing ribosomes and its translation of DNA information into life. He shared the prize with Dr Thomas Steitz of Yale University, Connecticut, and Dr Ada Yonath of Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
He credited the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and the University of Utah for supporting his work and the collegiate atmosphere there that made it all possible.
He made a great contribution
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