Venki Ramakrishnan
Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan (born 1952) 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.
Venki Ramakrishnan | |
|---|---|
Ramakrishnan in 2015 | |
| 62nd President of the Royal Society | |
| In office 1 December 2015 – 30 November 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Paul Nurse |
| Succeeded by | Adrian Smith |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 1952 (age 71–72) Chidambaram, Madras State (now Tamil Nadu), India |
| Citizenship |
|
| Spouse |
Vera Rosenberry (m. 1975) |
| Children | 1 |
| Parent |
|
| Relatives | Lalita Ramakrishnan (sister) |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Website | www2 |
| Known for | |
| Awards |
|
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Ohio University |
| Thesis | The Green Function Theory of the Ferroelectric Phase Transition in Potassium Dihydrogen-Phosphate (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | Tomoyasu Tanaka |
| Academic work | |
| School or tradition | |
| Institutions | |
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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.