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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 of Sciences said that the award was conferred on them “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome” one of the core processes in life.
Proteins are generated by Riobosomes. The proteins regulate the chemistry in all living organisms. Their research is a milestone that is used by researchers working on to develop new antibiotics.
The three scientists 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.
They generated 3D models that showed how different antibiotics bind to the ribosome, the award committee said, adding that these models were now being used by scientists in order to develop new antibiotics, directly assisting the saving of lives and decreasing humanity's suffering.
Born in 1952 in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, Ramakrishnan completed his PhD in Physics in 1976 from Ohio University, US.
He is the Group Leader at the Structural Studies Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
