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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

1952 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has received more than 1,127,277 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is the 357th most popular chemist (up from 362nd in 2019), the 304th most popular biography from India (up from 323rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ranks 357 out of 602. Before him are Viktor Meyer, George Sarton, Leo Sternbach, Roderick MacKinnon, Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, and Charles Frédéric Gerhardt. After him are Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Nikolay Zelinsky, Otto Schott, Paul Walden, Paul Héroult, and Paul Ulrich Villard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ranks 154. Before him are Petar Stoyanov, Nikolai Andrianov, Rafael Caro Quintero, Anote Tong, Jean-Dominique Bauby, and Per Petterson. After him are Edward Zwick, Sergei Stepashin, Klaus Teuber, Samir Geagea, Ahmed Nazif, and Geraldo Alckmin.

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In India

Among people born in India, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ranks 304 out of 1,861. Before him are Inayat Khan (1882), Nana Sahib (1824), Michael Radford (1946), Harilal Gandhi (1888), M. Karunanidhi (1924), and Savitri (1936). After him are Asha Bhosle (1933), K. Kamaraj (1903), Zail Singh (1916), Telesphore Toppo (1939), Chandra Shekhar (1927), and Rajinikanth (1950).

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Among CHEMISTS In India

Among chemists born in India, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ranks 2. Before him are Kamala Sohonie (1912). After him are Asima Chatterjee (1917), C. N. R. Rao (1934), Yellapragada Subbarow (1895), and Darshan Ranganathan (1941).

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