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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is a British American structural biologist awarded a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath, for using macromolecular crystallography to determine the atomic structure of ribosomes and explain how they carry out protein synthesis.

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Birth Year
1952 1
Nationality
India 2
Nationality
United Kingdom 2
Nationality
United States 2
Field
Field (category)
Biology 1
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1. Venki Ramakrishnan (Wikipedia)
  • Wikipedia 'Venki Ramakrishnan': stated occupation/field in article intro, checked 2026-09-27
  • Wikipedia 'Venki Ramakrishnan': infobox birth_date, checked 2026-09-27
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2. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Wikipedia)
  • Wikipedia 'Venkatraman Ramakrishnan': born Chidambaram, Madras State, India; checked 2026-09-27
  • Wikipedia 'Venkatraman Ramakrishnan': citizenship United Kingdom; checked 2026-09-27
  • Wikipedia 'Venkatraman Ramakrishnan': citizenship United States; checked 2026-09-27
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