Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz of the US and Israel's Ada Yonath on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for their studies on the ribosome, the Nobel jury said.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz of the US and Israel's Ada Yonath on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for their studies on the ribosome, the Nobel jury said.
The trio were honoured for "mapping the ribosome -- one of the cell's most complex machineries -- at the atomic level," it said.
Nobel Prize in Medicine - 2009
The 2009 Nobel Prize for medicine goes to American scientists for their work on the ‘anti aging’ enzyme –telomerase.
The 2009 Nobel Prize for medicine goes to American scientists for their work on the ‘anti aging’ enzyme –telomerase.
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