6 Quotes & Sayings By Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, born in Chennai, India, is a chemical physicist and the Thomas and Margot Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and the director of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Center for Theoretical Biological Physics. He became a professor at the University of California, San Diego in 1995. He is known for his work on anomalies in the time-reversal symmetry breaking (TRS) property of matter. His research has been featured in popular media such as BBC Horizon and "Science," and has been featured on "The Colbert Report," "The Daily Show," and "The Colbert Report." He was awarded one of the 2012 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences and Medicine for his contributions to our understanding of how matter can be described by an infinite-dimensional wavefunction Read more

Dr. Ramakrishnan is the author of over 180 publications, including 34 papers that have been cited more than 1000 times each. He has received numerous awards such as the J.

Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Fellowship (2004), the Max Delbruck Prize (2006), and the MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award" (2002). For more information see http://venkatraman.ucsd.edu

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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award? Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan