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Ramakrishnan's teacher says the spark was there even during college days |
Even as a student, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry,
had the spark in him to climb great heights, his former teacher N.S Govindaraj
said. Ramakrishna's former teacher recalled that the Nobel laureate was a bright
and sincere student who would reach great heights like Sir C V Raman, who won
the Nobel for physics in 1930. "Even when he was a student, I knew that he would
reach great heights, even more than Sir C V Raman. He used to study and was very
sincere in his duties," said 82-year-old Govindaraj. In Chennai, academics and
students expressed happiness over the selection of Ramakrishnan for the top award.
"It's a very happy news. We should be proud of one of ours has got the Nobel Prize
for science. Indians were known like C.V Raman was famous and was the first one
to receive the Nobel Prize for physics from India. Later on there were other scientists
who went abroad and then made names for themselves," said P. John, Vice Principal,
Loyola College. Saran Rajkumar, a college student, said: "I am very proud that
Ramakrishnan has got a Nobel Prize in chemistry." Ramakrishnan is the ninth person
of Indian origin to bag the award. Venkatraman along with Israeli Ada Yonath and
American Thomas Steitz won the Nobel Prize for producing atom-by-atom maps of
the mysterious, life-giving ribosome that has allowed researchers to develop powerful
new antibiotics. The Nobel prizes are given annually for achievements in chemistry,
physics, medicine, peace, literature and economics. They were first awarded in
1901 in accordance with the 1895 will of Swedish millionaire Alfred Nobel, the
inventor of dynamite. Presently, Ramakrishnan is a U.S. scientist at the Medical
Research Council's Molecular Biology Laboratories in Cambridge. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was born at Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu in 1952. He had his early schooling in Chidambaram and later did B.Sc (physics) from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, in 1976. |
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