Which Indian-origin scientist won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on ribosome structure?
- Har Gobind Khorana
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- V. Raman
Answer: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, an Indian-born British-American structural biologist, shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome, the cellular machine that translates genetic information into proteins.