Venki Ramakrishnan
E222254
Venki Ramakrishnan is a Nobel Prize–winning structural biologist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and function of the ribosome.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | 4 |
| Venki Ramakrishnan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1924551 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Venki Ramakrishnan Context triple: [MRC LMB, notableScientist, Venki Ramakrishnan]
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A.
Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for her pioneering work on the structure and function of the ribosome.
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B.
Aaron Klug
Aaron Klug was a Nobel Prize–winning chemist and biophysicist renowned for developing crystallographic electron microscopy and elucidating the structures of complex biological molecules.
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C.
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American biochemist and molecular biologist who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on DNA repair mechanisms.
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D.
John Kendrew
John Kendrew was a British biochemist and crystallographer who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the three-dimensional structure of the protein myoglobin.
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E.
Max Perutz
Max Perutz was an Austrian-British molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering X-ray crystallography studies of hemoglobin and helping to found the field of molecular biology.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Venki Ramakrishnan Target entity description: Venki Ramakrishnan is a Nobel Prize–winning structural biologist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and function of the ribosome.
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A.
Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for her pioneering work on the structure and function of the ribosome.
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B.
Aaron Klug
Aaron Klug was a Nobel Prize–winning chemist and biophysicist renowned for developing crystallographic electron microscopy and elucidating the structures of complex biological molecules.
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C.
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American biochemist and molecular biologist who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on DNA repair mechanisms.
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D.
John Kendrew
John Kendrew was a British biochemist and crystallographer who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the three-dimensional structure of the protein myoglobin.
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E.
Max Perutz
Max Perutz was an Austrian-British molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering X-ray crystallography studies of hemoglobin and helping to found the field of molecular biology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Chemistry
ⓘ
molecular biologist ⓘ person ⓘ structural biologist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Fellowship of the Royal Society
ⓘ
linked to:
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics ⓘ Knight Bachelor ⓘ Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine ⓘ Nobel Prize in Chemistry ⓘ Padma Shri ⓘ Padma Vibhushan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
India
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-04-02 ⓘ |
| degree |
Bachelor of Science in Physics
ⓘ
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics ⓘ |
| doctoralThesisTopic | theoretical physics ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
ⓘ
Ohio University ⓘ |
| employer |
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
ⓘ
linked to:
MRC LMB
University of Utah ⓘ |
| endTime | 2020 (for presidency of the Royal Society) ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
molecular biology
ⓘ
ribosome structure ⓘ structural biology ⓘ |
| fullName |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
ⓘ
linked to:
Venki Ramakrishnan
|
| givenName | Venkatraman ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009
ⓘ
determination of the atomic structure of the ribosome ⓘ studies of the structure and function of the ribosome ⓘ |
| memberOf |
European Molecular Biology Organization
ⓘ
Royal Society ⓘ U.S. National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
linked to:
National Academy of Sciences
|
| nickname | Venki ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeCategory | Chemistry ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeMotivation | studies of the structure and function of the ribosome ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| notablePublicationTopic |
antibiotic–ribosome interactions
ⓘ
ribosomal decoding ⓘ |
| notableWork | high-resolution structures of the 30S ribosomal subunit ⓘ |
| occupation |
biologist
ⓘ
scientist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Group Leader at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
ⓘ
President of the Royal Society ⓘ |
| sharedNobelPrizeWith |
Ada E. Yonath
ⓘ
linked to:
Ada Yonath
Thomas A. Steitz ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas Steitz
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| startTime | 2015 (for presidency of the Royal Society) ⓘ |
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Subject: Venki Ramakrishnan Description of subject: Venki Ramakrishnan is a Nobel Prize–winning structural biologist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and function of the ribosome.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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