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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

1952 - Today

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Venkatraman 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is the 47th most popular chemist (up from 357th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from India (up from 304th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ranks 47 out of 602. Before him are Humphry Davy, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Alfred Werner, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Adolf von Baeyer, and Fritz Pregl. After him are Victor Grignard, Arthur Harden, Adolf Butenandt, Archer Martin, Otto Diels, and Henry Louis Le Chatelier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ranks 9. Before him are Vajiralongkorn, Harvey Weinstein, Liam Neeson, Steven Seagal, Orhan Pamuk, and David Hasselhoff. After him are Park Geun-hye, Roberto Benigni, Salome Zourabichvili, Arkan, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and Nelson Piquet.

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In India

Among people born in India, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ranks 39 out of 1,861. Before him are Rani of Jhansi (1828), Padmasambhava (717), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), Zakir Husain (1897), Amir Khusrow (1253), and Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910). After him are Chandragupta Maurya (-340), Valmiki (-80), Buddhaghosa (401), Subhas Chandra Bose (1897), Adi Shankara (788), and Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895).

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Among CHEMISTS In India

Among chemists born in India, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ranks 1. After him are C. N. R. Rao (1934), Kamala Sohonie (1912), Asima Chatterjee (1917), Yellapragada Subbarow (1895), and Darshan Ranganathan (1941).

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