The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

Publish by Surendra Tetarwal for www.currentgk.tk
"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Thomas A. Steitz Ada E. Yonath

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Photo: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology )
1/3 of the prize
United Kingdom
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, United Kingdom
b. 1952(in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India)

Thomas A. Steitz (Credits: Michael Marsland/Yale University)
1/3 of the prize
USA
Yale University New Haven, CT, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
b. 1940

Ada E. Yonath (Credits: Micheline Pelletier/Corbis )
1/3 of the prize
Israel
Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel
b. 1939