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Venkatraman was born in Chidambaram in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India, where he spent his life with his highly educated parents. His father headed the biochemistry department at the Maharaj Sayajirao University in Baroda and his mother obtained a Ph. D in psychology. They eventually collaborated in their work and greatly influenced Ramakrishnan's scientific interest from a young age.

Through the influence of both his parents, Ramakrishnan became interested in science as a young student, which led him to partake his undergraduate studies in Physics.

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Immediately after graduation he moved to the U. He then spent two years studying biology as a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego while making a transition from theoretical physics to biology. After obtaining his degree in Ohio University he spent two years studying biology as a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego while making a transition from theoretical physics to biology.

While there, Ramakrishnan became interested in ribosomal work and was then offered a postdoctoral position at Don Engelmen and Peter Moore's lab working on a ribosome project involving membrane proteins. As a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, he worked on a neutron-scattering map of the small ribosomal subunit of E Coli. There, he began his collaboration with Stephen White.

There, he initiated his studies on protein-RNA complexes and the entire 30S subunit. And finally he settled down in the Universite of Cambridge. Ramakrishnan made an outstanding contribution to science and was rewarded for his research work namely in structure and function of the ribosome and macromolecular crystallography. Besides being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry he received India's second highest civilian honor, the Padma Vibhushan, in