Indian born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan gets Nobel prize
A Physics graduate from Baroda, Ramakrishan, who had settled in US to pursue his work as a researcher and an academician in Micro Biology, received the Nobel Prize along with two other researchers on their work regarding DNA.
US CITIZEN and Indian born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has made India proud once again by winning a Nobel prize in Chemistry. The senior scientist in MRC laboratory of Micro Biology in Cambridge, has been given the coveted honour along with two other researchers for his work on decoding DNA.
A Physics graduate from Baroda, Ramakrishan migrated to USA to study further, where he later settled. Born in Chidambaram of Tamil Nadu, he got his PhD in Physics from Ohio University and worked as a graduate student in California University.
Ramakrishnan is the seventh Nobel winner of Indian origin, with the list including luminaries like Rabindra Nath Tagore, CV Rama, Amartya Sen and VS Naipaul.
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