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| known_for = | prizes = | influences = | footnotes = | spouse = 〔 | children = 1 son, 1 stepdaughter〔 | website = }} Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952)〔 〕 is an Indian-born American and British structural biologist and President of the Royal Society since November 2015. 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".〔〔(Biography and Bibliographic Resources ), from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy〕〔(Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Audio Interview ) Official Nobel Foundation website telephone interview〕 he works at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, UK.〔 〕 ==Education and early life== Ramakrishnan was born in Chidambaram in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India to C. V. Ramakrishnan and Ramakrishnan Rajalakshmi.〔 Both his parents were scientists, and his father was head of department of biochemistry at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.〔〔http://www.asianwindow.com/tag/venkatraman-venki-ramakrishnan/〕 At the time of his birth, Ramakrishnan's father was away from India doing postdoctoral research with David E. Green at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.〔 His mother obtained a PhD in Psychology from McGill University in 1959 which she completed in only 18 months, and was mentored by Donald O. Hebb.〔 Ramakrishnan moved to Vadodara (previously also known as Baroda) in Gujarat at the age of three, where he had his schooling at Convent of Jesus and Mary, except for spending 1960–61 in Adelaide, Australia. Following his Pre-Science at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, he did his undergraduate studies in the same university on a National Science Talent Scholarship, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1971. At the time, the physics course at Baroda was new, and based in part on The Berkeley Physics Course and The Feynman Lectures on Physics.〔 In a lecture in January 2010 at the Indian Institute of Science, he revealed that he failed to get admitted to any of the Indian Institutes of Technology or the Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu. Immediately after graduation he moved to the U.S.A., where he obtained his PhD degree in Physics from Ohio University in 1976 for research into the ferroelectric phase transition of Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate (KDP) supervised by Tomoyasu Tanaka. He then spent two years studying biology as a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego while making a transition from theoretical physics to biology. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Venkatraman Ramakrishnan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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