Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is an Indian origin British-American structural biologist. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath for research on the structure and function of ribosomes. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009, announced October 7, 2009. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath, “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan: born 1952, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India. Thomas A. Steitz: born 1940, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Ada E. Yonath: born 1939, Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel). Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).