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Venki's view - a Nobel prizewinner speaks - October 13, 2009

After Venkatraman Ramakrishnan learnt he'd shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with Ada Yonath and Thomas Steitz), NatureNews went to meet him at the UK Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in Cambridge. Here he is, describing the thrill of seeing atomic-resolution structures of the ribosome - and his surprise at winning a chemistry Nobel: a subject in which, he admits, he'd flunk an undergraduate degree.

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Posted by Richard Van Noorden on October 13, 2009
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It is interesting hearing Ramakrishnan highlighting the moving nature of the mechanism of the ribosome. By looking only at pictures, we tend to lose sight of that aspect. The interview sketches a soft and friendly portrait of Ramakrishnan as a calm, humble and passionate researcher. A very good editing job if we take into account that the video lasts only 7 minutes.

Posted by: Bertrand Ducharme | October 14, 2009 02:10 AM

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