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= Venki Ramakrishnan
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Venki Ramakrishnan is an Indian-American structural biologist known for his work on the structure and function of the ribosome, the molecular machine that synthesizes proteins in cells. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009, along with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath, for their pioneering studies on the ribosome's structure and function.