Indian-American Scientist Venkatraman 'Venki' Ramakrishnan won Nobel Prize 2009 for chemistry

Stockholm: Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday formapping ribosomes, the protein-producing factories within cells, at the atomic level.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their work has been fundamental to the scientific understanding of life and has helped researchers develop antibiotic cures for various diseases.
Yonath is the fourth woman to win the Nobel chemistry prize and the first since 1964, when Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin of Britain received the prize.
This year's three laureates all generated three-dimensional models that show how different antibiotics bind to ribosomes.

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Other Indian Nobel Prize Winners from 1901 to till date are

# 1 Nobel Prizes

British-Raj Citizens
         Ronald Ross
         Rudyard Kipling
         Rabindranath Tagore
         Abdus Salam
Citizens of India
         Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
American Citizens of Indian Origin
         Hargobind Khorana
         Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
         Venkatraman 'Venki' Ramakrishnan
Indian Citizen of Foreign Origin
         Mother Teresa
People of Indian Descent (Descendants of Modern-Era Immigrants)
         Naipaul
Foreign Citizens mainly residing in India
         Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Citizens of India
         Amartya Sen
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