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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Thomas A. Steitz Ada E. Yonath
Photo: U. Montan Photo: U. Montan Photo: U. Montan
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Thomas A. Steitz Ada E. Yonath
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
United Kingdom USA Israel
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, United Kingdom		 Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel
b. 1952
(in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India)		 b. 1940 b. 1939
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