When we were in Medical school 3 decades ago all we knew was there are theses small round structures which are on the rough endoplasmic reticulum called ribosomes which had a 30 and 50 sub ubits and theses are involved in protein synthesis.
we have come a long way in understanding the subcellular structures in 3 decades.
Seminal Work for 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Conducted at Brookhaven Lab
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz used BNL’s National Synchrotron Light Source to produce atomic-level images of ribosomes
Biographical Information on 2009 Chemistry Nobel Prize Winners
Ramakrishnan's high-resolution structure of 30S ribosomal subunit, based on data collected at NSLS, APS, and ESRF, published by Nature in 2000.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is a U.S. citizen. He was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics in 1976 from Ohio University. He conducted research at a variety of U.S. institutions before joining Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Biology Department in 1983, earning tenure in 1990. In 1997, he left Brookhaven Lab for the University of Utah, but maintained a guest appointment and continued to use the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven until 2001, conducting research that contributed to this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is currently a Senior Scientist and Group Leader in the Structural Studies Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
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