By IANS,
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Thursday congratulated Indian-origin scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan on winning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Lauding his pioneering work in the field of molecular biology, the speaker said: “The nation and the people of India are proud.” She said his research would break “new grounds and lead to new dimensions in the field of biology”.
Ramakrishnan, now a US citizen and associated with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, Britain, was named for the $1.42-million prize Wednesday along with American Thomas A. Steitz and Israeli Ada E. Yonath for their “studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”.
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