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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 1,107,089 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is the 362nd most popular chemist (up from 404th in 2019), the 326th most popular biography from India (up from 357th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ranks 362 out of 509. Before him are Thomas C. Südhof, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, Louis Le Chatelier, George Washington Carver, Brunó Ferenc Straub, and Kazimierz Fajans. After him are Kamala Sohonie, Louis Camille Maillard, Carl Djerassi, Paul Ulrich Villard, Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, and Otto Schott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ranks 154. Before him are Annette O'Toole, Jeff Fahey, Vinnie Vincent, Rainer Bonhof, Ahmed Ouyahia, and Randy Savage. After him are Bell hooks, Abbas al-Musawi, Mitch Pileggi, Charlie Whiting, Rosemarie Ackermann, and Freddy Maertens.

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In India

Among people born in India, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ranks 326 out of 1,493. Before him are Rash Behari Bose (1886), K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), Hussain Muhammad Ershad (1930), Debendranath Tagore (1817), Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), and Chandra Shekhar (1927). After him are Rana Sanga (1482), U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932), Kamala Sohonie (1912), Rani Padmini (null), Mad Mike Hoare (1919), and Rajendra Chola I (1000).

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Among CHEMISTS In India

Among chemists born in India, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ranks 1. After him are Kamala Sohonie (1912), Asima Chatterjee (1917), C. N. R. Rao (1934), Yellapragada Subbarow (1895), and Darshan Ranganathan (1941).

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