Multiple choice

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and who among the following?

  1. Osamu Shimomura and Martin Chalfie

  2. Mario J. Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland

  3. Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath

  4. Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech

  5. Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen
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Explanation

Dr. Ramakrishnan, 57, who was born in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India, is the senior scientist and group leader at the Structural Studies Division of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. He had earlier studied at the Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara. 69-year-old Dr. Steitz is a professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University and attached to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 70-year-old Dr. Yonath is a professor of structural biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

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