Author

Venki Ramakrishnan

Venki Ramakrishnan is an Indian-American-British structural biologist renowned for his work on the ribosome. He was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, India, and earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Ohio University. Ramakrishnan received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for his studies on the structure and function of the ribosome, underscoring his credibility on the topic. Besides "The Gene Machine," he has contributed to notable scientific papers on ribosomal structure and function.