Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologist · United States · Scientists · Born 1952 · age 74
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Something wrong?He mapped the ribosome - the molecular machine that reads genetic code and builds every protein in every living cell - work precise enough to earn a Nobel and rewrite how we think about the engine of life itself.
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, This is an honour that reflects the quality of science supported by the Medical Research Council, in particular at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.
In the current debate about immigration, it is worth noting that this award is yet another example of the numerous contributions that immigrants make to British society.
Indeed, many of the founding members of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology were immigrants themselves, and they helped to revolutionise modern biology.
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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was born in 1952 and became a structural biologist working at the border of chemistry and cell mechanics. By 1999 he'd joined the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, where he led the team that cracked the ribosome's atomic structure. In 2009 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath for that work - revealing how ribosomes decode RNA and stitch amino acids into proteins. Cambridge made him a Fellow of Trinity College; the Royal Society made him its President from 2015 to 2020.
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