Question

Venki Ramakrishnan shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in which field with Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath?
1. Physics
2. Chemistry
3. Literature
4. None of the above

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Chemistry

The correct answer is option 2, i.e, Chemistry.

• Venki Ramakrishnan shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath.
• Prize motivation: " for studies of the structure and function of the Ribosome".
• He is a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2004 and a Foreign Member of the Indian National Science Academy in 2008.
• He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2010.
• He was elected as President of the Royal Society for a fiver-year term in 2015.
• (Ribosomes are tiny particles made up of RNA and proteins that specialize in protein synthesis and are found free bound to the ER within cells).