Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

What strikes me about Venki Ramakrishnan is how unglamorous his triumph is, and how much that matters. Mapping the ribosome, the cell's protein factory, sounds abstract until you realize it underpins the antibiotics that keep us alive. From Chidambaram to a Nobel and a knighthood, his arc is a quiet argument for patience and rigor over showmanship. I find it telling that his official page is still a modest university lab site. He represents, to me, the kind of scientist whose impact vastly outsizes their public fame, and I deeply respect that.

Name (English)

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Name (Japanese)

ヴェンカトラマン・ラマクリシュナン

Reading

ゔぇんかとらまん・らまくりしゅなん

Born

January 1, 1952 (age 74)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dragon

Origin

Chidambaram, Cuddalore district, India

Occupation

biologist / chemist / biophysicist / biochemist / molecular biologist

University

Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

Awards & achievements

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• Fellow of the Royal Society
• 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 2010 Padma Vibhushan in science & engineering
• 2012 Sir Hans Krebs Medal
• EMBO Membership
• 2012 Knight Bachelor
• 2007 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine

• Official sitehttp://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/ribo/homepage/ramak/index.html
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venki%20Ramakrishnan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8A%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60061

Tags

• Cuddalore district
• biologist
• chemist
• biophysicist

Last updated

2026-06-21

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