CONGRATULATION TO VENKARARAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN *INDIAN-BORN SCIENTIST SHARES CHEMISTRY NOBEL PRIZE

CONGRATULATION TO VENKARARAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN
*INDIAN-BORN SCIENTIST SHARES CHEMISTRY NOBEL PRIZE *
Congratulations to Vegetarianism Ramakrishnan on sharing the Nobel prize in Chemistry with Ada- yonath and Thomas steitz.
Indian born scientist Dr Ramakrishnan American Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada yonath shared the 10 million swedish crown prize for showing how the ribosome, which produces protein, functions at the atomic level.
Dr Ramakrishnan is senior scientist at the medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of molecular Biology in Cambridge , England, Dr Thomas Steitz is at the Yale University and Dr Yonath works at the Weizmann Institutes of Science in Israel.
“ As ribosome are crucial to life, they are also a major target for new antibiotics. All three scientists have used a method called X-ray crystallography to map the position for each of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome.. Dr Venkataraman Ramakrishnan said he was deeply indebted to his associates, students and researchers in his Cambridge based laboratory for the path breaking work he has conducted in the area of ribosomes.
Dr Ramakrishnan (57) born in the temple town of chidambaran in Tamil Nadu, is the seventh Indian or Indian origin person to win the prestigious award born is 1952, he earned his Bsc in physics (1971) from Baroda University in Gujarat and later migrated to the U.S to continue his studies where he later settled and secured U.S citizenship. He earned his Ph. D in physics from Ohio University and later worked as a graduate student at the University of California from 1976-78.
Dr Ramakrishnan, now a senior scientist at the MRC Laboratory of molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K.
President Pratibha Patil congratulated the India- born scientist Dr Venkataraman Ramakrishnan jointly winning this years (2009) Nobel prize for chemistry.
Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to win the Nobel prize, when he was honoured for his contribution to Literature in 1913. Renowned physicist C.V Raman was conferred the Nobel prize in physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him. Hargobind khorana won Nobel prize in medicine 1968 for his interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis. Subramanyan Chandrasekhar won the Nobel prize in physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of stars.
Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize won the Nobel prize in 1979 for her work in the slums of Calcutta through the missionaries of charity. 1998, the Nobel prize in Economics was awarded to Amartya Sen, while the 2001 Literature prize went to V.S Naipaul. In 2007 R.K Pachauri shared Nobel prize in environment science. In 1989, Dalai Lama who has been living since 1959 got the Nobel prize
Nobel Prize for Dr Ramakrishnan marks a proud moment for India.

Prof John Kurakar