Venki Ramakrishnan

Venki Ramakrishnan
OM
Venki Ramakrishnan OM
	Ramakrishnan at the Nobel Prize Press conference in 2009
62nd President of the Royal Society
	In office; 1 December 2015 – 30 November 2020
Preceded by	Paul Nurse
Succeeded by	Adrian Smith
Personal details
Born	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan; 1952 (age 73–74); Chidambaram, Madras State (now Tamil Nadu), India
Citizenship	United Kingdom; United States;
Spouse	Vera Rosenberry (m. 1975)
Children	1
Parents	Prof. C. V. Ramakrishnan (father); Rajalakshmi Ramakrishnan (mother);
Relatives	Lalita Ramakrishnan (sister)
Website	www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/venki-ramakrishnan
Known for	Structure and function of the ribosome; macromolecular crystallography;
Awards	Knight Bachelor (2012); Padma Vibhushan (2010); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009); Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2007); Order of Merit (2022);
Academic background
Education	Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (BSc); University of California, San Diego; Ohio University (PhD);
Thesis	The Green Function Theory of the Ferroelectric Phase Transition in Potassium Dihydrogen-Phosphate (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Tomoyasu Tanaka
Academic work
School or tradition	Biochemistry; Biophysics;
Institutions	Laboratory of Molecular Biology; University of Cambridge; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Yale University; University of Utah; Brookhaven National Laboratory;

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is a British-American structural biologist. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath for research on the structure and function of ribosomes.