It was a yet another milestone for the state of Tamilnadu in India .This was made possible by the Indian-born American scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan for his remarkable contribution in the field of chemistry.He is the seventh Indian to be awarded this Nobel prize.He was born in the temple town of Chidambaram in the year 1952.His father who is a professor moved along with his family to Baroda city in Gujarat.Venkatraman started his carreer all the way from the famous MS university in Baroda where his father was also working.After earning the B.S.C(physics) degree,his family moved to USA and settled there.He earned his Ph.D in Physics from Ohio University and later worked as a graduate student at the University of California from 1976-78.
During his stint at the varsity, Dr. Ramakrishnan conducted a research with Dr. Mauricio Montal, a membrane biochemist and later designed his own two-year transition from physics to biology.
As a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, he worked on a neutron-scattering map of the small ribosomal subunit of E Coli. He has been studying ribosome structure ever since.
Dr. Ramakrishnan, now a senior scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He joins the list of several Nobel laureates who worked at the laboratory.
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