Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath were awarded nobel prize in chemistry 2009
1. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Born: 1952, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India
Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
Field: Biochemistry, structural chemistry
2. Thomas A. Steitz
Born: 23 August 1940, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Prize motivation: "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
Field: Biochemistry, structural chemistry
3. Ada E. Yonath
Born: 22 June 1939, Jerusalem, Israel
Affiliation at the time of the award: Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Prize motivation: "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
Field: Biochemistry, structural chemistry
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