Nobel Laureate Dr Venki Ramakrishnan in conversation with Professor Patrick French (Video)
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Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad.
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At this special session, Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 is in conversation with Professor Patrick French, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University.
Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a structural biologist, is an inspirational example of interdisciplinary academic scholarship and public science communication. He spent his childhood years in Gujarat, and took his first degree – a Bachelor of Science in Physics – at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda before moving to the United States for his initial breakthrough academic research and then to Cambridge’s MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. The Nobel Prize was awarded in 2009 jointly to Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Dr Thomas A. Steitz, and Dr Ada E. Yonath ‘for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome’. From 2015 to 2020, Dr Ramakrishnan was a ground-breaking President of the Royal Society, the UK’s independent scientific academy dedicated to promoting excellence in science for the benefit of humanity.