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In the current debate about immigration, it is worth noting that this award is yet another example of the numerous contributions that immigrants make… - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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About Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan (born 1952), an Indian-born American and British citizen, is a molecular biologist. He is the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath, "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”. He currently works at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. He has been honoured with the second highest civilian award of India, the Padma Vibhushan in 2010. The United Kingdom honoured him with Knighthood in 2012.
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Native Name:
வெங்கட்ராமன் ராமகிருஷ்ணன்
Alternative Names:
V. Ramakrishnan
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Venki Ramakrishnan
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Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan
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I remember reading a Scientific American article about the use of new physical techniques – including neutron scattering – as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated. I knew ribosomes were a big fundamental problem in science and this was a method for chipping away at it.
It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years. Or your approach may be fatally flawed and doomed to fail. Or you could get scooped just as you are finalising your work. It is very stressful.
You would have to ask a physicist really but I think understanding fundamental problems in physics is very important because they are part of our culture. You just never know what is going to come from it. If you had told Isaac Newton about spaceships and satellites that arise from his laws of gravity, it would have been science fiction to him.
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