Venki Ramakrishnan
Venki Ramakrishnan | |
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Ramakrishnan in 2009 | |
| 62nd President of the Royal Society | |
| In office 1 December 2015 – 30 November 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Paul Nurse |
| Succeeded by | Adrian Smith |
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| Born | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 1952 (age 72–73) Chidambaram, Madras State (now Tamil Nadu), India |
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Vera Rosenberry (m. 1975) |
| Children | 1 |
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| Relatives | Lalita Ramakrishnan (sister) |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Website | www2 |
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| Thesis | The Green Function Theory of the Ferroelectric Phase Transition in Potassium Dihydrogen-Phosphate (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | Tomoyasu Tanaka |
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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.