President congratulates Venkataraman for winning Nobel prize

President Pratibha Patil congratulated India-born scientist Professor Venkatraman Ramakrishnana for jointly winning this year's Nobel prize for Chemistry.

President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday congratulated India-born scientist Professor Venkatraman Ramakrishnana for jointly winning this year's Nobel prize for Chemistry.

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In her message, Patil said she was very proud to hear of the news and was happy that Professor Ramakrishnan's pursuit of understanding the structure and functioning of the ribosome has been recognised.

Patil hopes that the work will one day help in bringing a cure for those who suffer from incurable bacterial infections, a Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson said.

Ramakrishnan, now a US citizen, is the 13th Nobel prize winner to have conducted path-breaking research at the Cambridge-based MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

He shares the 2009 Nobel prize for Chemistry with Thomas E Steitz and Ada E Yonath for their work in the study of the structure and function of the ribosome.