Born:Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, 1952 (age 73–74), Chidambaram, Madras State (now Tamil Nadu), India
Awards:Knight Bachelor (2012), , Padma Vibhushan (2010), , Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009), , Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2007), , Order of Merit (2022)
Spouse:Vera Rosenberry (m. 1975)
Thesis:The Green Function Theory of the Ferroelectric Phase Transition in Potassium Dihydrogen-Phosphate (1976)
Parents:Prof. C. V. Ramakrishnan (father), , Rajalakshmi Ramakrishnan (mother)
Education:Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (BSc), , University of California, San Diego, , Ohio University (PhD)
Relatives:Lalita Ramakrishnan (sister)
Known for:Structure and function of the ribosome, , macromolecular crystallography
Citizenship:United Kingdom, , United States
Preceded by:Paul Nurse
Institutions:Laboratory of Molecular Biology, , University of Cambridge, , Oak Ridge National Laboratory, , Yale University, , University of Utah, , Brookhaven National Laboratory