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Oct 7 2009, Raj K. Mitra

American Indian scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with American Thomas A Steitz and Isreali scientist Ada E Yonath.

The announcement was made in Stockholm on Wednesday. The Royal Swedish Academy...

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