Venki Ramakrishnan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Venki Ramakrishnan

Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologist

Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1952

Place of Birth: Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India

Profession: chemist, biologist, university teacher, biochemist, biophysicist

Nationality: United States, India

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is a British-American structural biologist who is the current President of the Royal Society. In 2009, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A.
Steitz and Ada Yonath, "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".
He was elected President of the Royal Society for a term of five years starting in 2015.Since 1999, he has worked as a group leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, UK.