{"id":2654,"date":"2009-10-13T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2009\/10\/nobel-laureate-venki-ramakrishnan.html"},"modified":"2009-10-13T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T11:22:10","slug":"nobel_laureate_venki_ramakrish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2009\/10\/nobel_laureate_venki_ramakrish.html","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Laureate &#8211; Venki Ramakrishnan"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>This is cross-posted from <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/thegreatbeyond\/2009\/10\/venkis_view_a_nobel_prizewinne.html\">The Great Beyond<\/a><strong>*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/ribo\/homepage\/ramak\/index.html\">Venkatraman Ramakrishnan<\/a> learnt he&#8217;d shared the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2009\/091007\/full\/news.2009.981.html\">2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry<\/a> (with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/sb\/faculty_pages\/Yonath\/home.html\">Ada Yonath<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yale.edu\/steitz\/tom\/tom.html\">Thomas Steitz<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/index.html\">NatureNews<\/a> went to meet him at the UK Medical Research Council&#8217;s Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in Cambridge. Here he is, describing the thrill of seeing atomic-resolution structures of the ribosome &#8211; and his surprise at sharing the chemistry Nobel: a subject in which, he admits, he&#8217;d flunk an undergraduate degree.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vp0LYz5D8Yc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vp0LYz5D8Yc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is cross-posted from The Great Beyond* After Venkatraman Ramakrishnan learnt he&#8217;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&#8217;s Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in Cambridge. Here he is, describing the thrill of seeing atomic-resolution structures of the ribosome &#8211; and his surprise at sharing the chemistry Nobel: a subject in which, he admits, he&#8217;d flunk an undergraduate degree.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2009\/10\/nobel_laureate_venki_ramakrish.html#wpn-more-2654\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2009\/10\/nobel_laureate_venki_ramakrish.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuart-cantrill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}