Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologist
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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is an American and British scientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work in structural biology, the study of how biological molecules are built and organized. His research has helped scientists understand the fundamental structures of life at the molecular level, which is important for developing new medicines and understanding how living things function.
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- 1952-01-01
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5 total works indexed
- Measurement of Business Performance in Strategy Research: A Comparison of Approaches
· 1986 · cited 7,757x
- Disordered electronic systems
· 1985 · cited 5,820x
- Scaling Theory of Localization: Absence of Quantum Diffusion in Two Dimensions
· 1979 · cited 5,581x
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is a British-American structural biologist. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath for research on the structure and function of ribosomes.
Since 1999, he has worked as a group leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, UK and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He served as President of the Royal Society from 2015 to 2020.
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1952 birthsAmerican academics of Indian descentAmerican biochemistsAmerican biophysicistsAmerican emigrants to EnglandAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican people of Indian Tamil descentBritish biochemistsBritish biophysicistsBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish Nobel laureates