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
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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