It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

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• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan:

  Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel do

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• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan:

  My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was

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• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan:

  I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.

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  I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented

• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan:

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