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Physics History Network
Dates
April 1, 1952 – present
Authorized Form of Name
Ramakrishnan, Venki, 1952-
Additional Forms of Names
Ramakrishnan, Venkatraman, 1952
வெங்கடராமன், ராமகிருஷ்ணன்
Abstract
Venki Ramakrishnan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009, alongside Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome." He has held positions at Yale University, the Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of Utah, and the Medical Research Council Laboratory at Cambridge University.
Important Dates
April 1, 1952Birth, Chidambaram (India).
1971Obtained BSc in Physics, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara (India).
1976Pursued second graduate degree in Biology, University of California, San Diego.
1976Obtained PhD in Physics, Ohio University, Athens (Ohio).
1978Postgraduate Researcher, Yale University, New Haven (Conn.).
1983 – 1995Researcher, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton (N.Y.).
1991 – 1992Sabbatical at MRC (Medical Research Council) Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
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Venki Ramakrishnan, Ph.D.
You grew up among scientists, not only your parents, but other scientists visiting your home. How did that influence you?
Venki Ramakrishnan: Well, I have to be honest. I was something of a rebel as a school kid. There were about three or four grades when I just refused to study, even for exams, and was in the bottom third of my class. And my parents were really worried because I had gone from being at the top of my class to the bottom third.
I thought their life was sort of interesting because they would always travel to interesting places, and all these people from America and England and other parts of Europe would come and visit. So I thought, “This is sort of an interesting life,” but I didn’t think that I would actually be a scientist. To some extent, I thought if I went in that direction, I would rather be an engineer. I thought I’d want to be an electronic engineer or something like that.
But that changed in the last couple of years of high school. Even then, I wanted to be an engineer, but then I didn’t get into the — there are these
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History Today in Medicine – Dr. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan
CME INDIA Presentation by ⚜ Dr. M. Gowri Sankar, MD, Senior Assistant Professor, Dept. of General Medicine, Government Medical College and ESI Hospital, Coimbatore.
Today’s History Feature:
Dr. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan
🇮🇳 The Pride of India 🇮🇳
(Born – April 5, 1952)
💠Indian-Born Physicist & Molecular Biologist
His contributions…
🔸Dr. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan is popularly known as Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan. He was born in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu.
🔸His father was a scholar with a Doctorate in Biochemistry and his mother was also a scholar with Doctorate in Psychology.
🔸His father got appointed as the Head of Department of Biochemistry at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. So, his family moved to Baroda when he was young. In fact, Ramakrishnan was highly inspired by his parents.
🔸Actually, he wanted to be a scientist, so he
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