Question

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan won the Nobel prize for his work in the following field:
1. Chemistry
2. Physics
3. Medicine
4. Economics

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Chemistry

The correct answer is Chemistry.

• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is an Indian-born British-American structural biologist who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath, "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".
• Ramakrishnan is internationally recognized for the determination of the atomic structure of the 30S ribosomal subunit.
• From 1983 to 1995, Ramakrishnan was a biophysicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 112 times to 186 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2020.
• Frederick Sanger is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in 1958 and 1980.
• The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing”.
• The list of the Indian and Indian-origin Nobel laureates:

Person	Field
Abhijit Banerjee	Nobel Prize in Economics 2019.
Rabindranath Tagore	Nobel Prize in 1913 in Literature.
CV Raman	Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
Har Gobind Khorana	1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	1983 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Amartya Sen	Nobel Prize in Economics 1998.