Chimica: Venki Ramakrishnan, Ada Yonath, Thomas Steitz

Pubblicato il 07/10/2009Read time: 2 mins

Per gli studi sulla struttura e la funzione dei ribosomi, i complessi che traducono il codice genetico in proteine.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (wikipedia)

venkatraman

Scheda del Nobel Prize:

1/3 del premio
paese: Gran Bretagna
istituto: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (Gran Bretagna)
anno e luogo di nascita:1952 (Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India)

Ada E. Yonath (wikipedia)

yonath yonath

Scheda del Nobel Prize:

1/3 del premio
paese: Israele
istituto: Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israele)
anno di nascita: 1939

Thomas A. Steitz (wikipedia)

thomas steitz

Scheda del Nobel Prize:

1/3 del premio
paese: USA
istituto: Yale University, New Haven (CT, USA); Howard Hughes Medical Institute
anno di nascita: 1940

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