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Discovery: Life Changers - Venki Ramakrishnan

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Life Changers - Venki Ramakrishnan

07/09/2015 GMT

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Kevin Fong talks to the Indian-born Nobel Laureate Professor Venki Ramakrishnan

Kevin Fong talks to Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan about his remarkable and unconventional career

Kevin Fong talks to Venki Ramakrishnan, Professor of structural biology in Cambridge and joint-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009. Celebrated for his work on the ribosome, the remarkable molecular machine at the heart of all cell biology, Ramakrishnan was knighted for services to Science in 2012 and later this year, will become the first Indian-born president of the Royal Society, the oldest and most prestigious scientific body in the world.  And yet, as Kevin discovers, his education and early academic career was anything but predictable or conventional and included being rejected from both Indian and US Universities multiple times.

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