Nobel Prize – Chemistry
The winners of Nobel prize 2009 are Venkatraman Ramakrishnan , United States, Thomas A. Steitz United States, Ada E. Yonath Israel “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Born 1952 in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu
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He is a structural biologist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Medical Research Council located in Cambridge, England.
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He is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Ramakrishnan is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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His residence is in United Kingdom
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Citizenship United States
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Known for Bio-crystallography
Thomas A. Steitz :
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Thomas Arthur Steitz (born August 23, 1940) is a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Ada E. Yonath:
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Ada E. Yonath (born 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosome.
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She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science.