Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is a male biologist, chemist, biophysicist, and biochemist born in Chidambaram in 1952. He holds United States citizenship and resides in Cambridgeshire. His professional interests include biophysics, biochemistry, computational biology, and molecular biology. He has worked at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Yale University.

Ramakrishnan received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Sir Hans Krebs Medal, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences, and the European Molecular Biology Organization. He was educated at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Ohio University, and the University of California, San Diego. He speaks English and has a sibling named Lalita Ramakrishnan.