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Article: Humble beginnings in India to Nobel glory.
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- Mail Today (New Delhi, India)
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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$ 1.4 million ( Rs 7 crore) prize with two other scientists -- Thomas Steitz of Yale University and Ada E. Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
Dr Venkatraman, an American citizen but currently working at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, England, did his groundbreaking work while in the US where he had moved soon after his graduation in science from the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda.
His work on ribosomes -- which began in 1978 soon after his doctoral work -- has wideranging applications from designing more effective antibiotics to complex biotechnological processes.
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