Indian-American scientist Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and his colleagues, American Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath, have won the 2009 Nobel prize for chemistry. Ramakrishnan, Steitz, and Yonath were honoured by The Royal Swedish Academy Wednesday for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories within cells.
Ramakrisnan, 57, who was born in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India, is the senior scientist and group leader at the Structural Studies Division of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England.
Dr. 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,” Dr. Ramakrishnan told The Associated Press by telephone from his lab in Cambridge.
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