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Trio awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving ribosome riddle
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by Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke | October 7, 2009 at 02:53 am
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Two Americans and one Israeli scientists will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath have been awarded the prize for mapping life-saving ribosome. The breakthrough has been instrumental in developing new anti-biotics. Ribosome produces protein, functions at the atomic level.
Ada Yonath is the first Israeli woman to be awarded the prize. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is of Indian heritage.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was born in Chidambaram, India in 1952 . He obtained a BSc at Baruda University in 1971 and PhD at Ohio University in 1976. He is a U.S. Citizen.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Three scientists who produced an atom-by-atom map of the mysterious, life-giving ribosome won the Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday, a breakthrough that has been vital for the development of new antibiotics.
While DNA molecules contain the blueprint for life inside each cell of every organism, it is the ribosome that translates that information into life.
Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath shared the 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.4 million) prize for showing how the ribosome, which produces protein, functions at the atomic level.
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at 04:39 on October 7th, 2009
That makes America great, it call all best brain of the world as American.
at 06:14 on October 7th, 2009
Why is his Indian heritage noteworthy but not somebody being Jewish? Isn't he now an American citizen and thus American? You wouldn't say 'Alan Greenspan, the Jew, won a Nobel Prize'.
at 07:12 on October 7th, 2009
Maybe because he was born and raised in India. It is a big deal to the people in India regardless of current citizenship.
at 06:53 on October 7th, 2009
Quite a big deal here for the first Israeli woman to win the award and the first woman since the 1960's to receive one.
at 07:10 on October 7th, 2009
I bet it is and she is the first woman to win that award in Chemistry.
at 07:52 on October 7th, 2009
She's not the first woman to win the Nobel prize for chemistry.
at 08:24 on October 7th, 2009
I stand corrected. Here is a comprehensive list of Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry.
at 02:58 on October 8th, 2009
You should read again. Actually it says first Israeli Woman to win the prize for chem not first woman.
at 07:29 on October 7th, 2009
Thanks for this albertacowpoke. Please see the story on the latest news, controversies, announcement schedule and the social media tools used by the Nobel Prize Committee here.
at 08:13 on October 7th, 2009
THere is so much we dont know about chemisty and the actions with antibiotics
at 11:33 on October 7th, 2009
Good for them.
So Ada Yonath is not the first woman though?
at 11:45 on October 7th, 2009
She is the first Israeli Woman to be awarded the prize
at 18:44 on October 7th, 2009
Aren't we all forgetting Madame Curie?And there is no such thing as Baruda University, it is M.S. University in BarOda.
at 10:51 on October 8th, 2009
I'm happy for her...what an accomplishment
at 10:58 on October 8th, 2009
Thanks for your comments PC.