The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"

1. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

third 1/3 of the prize

United Kingdom
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, United Kingdom
b. 1952
(in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India) b. 1940 b. 1939

2. Thomas A. Steitz

third 1/3 of the prize

USA
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA;
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
b. 1940

3. Ada E. Yonath

third 1/3 of the prize

Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel
b. 1939