Books by Venki Ramakrishnan

Venki Ramakrishnan is an Indian British and American structural biologist. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.” In 2015, Venki was elected as the 62nd president of the Royal Society. He still devotedly contributes to biology on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus as a team leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).

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Gene Machine

Venki Ramakrishnan

“Gene Machine” is a candid and engaging memoir by Venki Ramakrishnan. In it, he describes the obstacles, errors, and hours of hard work that lead him from an ordinary student to a Nobel laureate in chemistry. Scientists and nonscientists will enjoy this book because of the exceptional details and accessible explanations of the ribosome.

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