American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan who has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz, and Ada Yonath have the Nobel prize for “studies of the structure of the ribosome” .
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath's work on ribosomes has been fundamental to the scientific understanding of life and has helped researchers develop antibiotics.
Yonath, 70, is the fourth woman to win the Nobel chemistry prize and the first since 1964, when Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin of Britain received the award.
Indian-born Ramakrishnan, 57, is the senior scientist and group leader at the Structural Studies Division of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England.
Ramakrishnan said that he wasn't convinced when he got the morning phone call from the academy.
"Well, you know, I thought it was an elaborate joke. I have friends who play practical jokes," Ramakrishnan told The Associated Press by telephone from his lab in Cambridge. "I complimented him on his Swedish accent."
The award includes a $1.4 million prize that will be presented to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and the other two on December 10. On Tuesday December 8, Venkatraman will present a lecture on his findings, indicates the Nobel Prize website today. The lecture will be at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University and later will be published online.
Chemistry is the third Nobel prize announced so far. On Monday, three Americans won for medicine for their discovery on the genetic operation of cells.
On Tuesday, three American won for physics for technology in digital photography. Literature will be announced this week and economics next week.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
2009 Nobel Prize winners : Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz, and Ada Yonath
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