The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"

Photo: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology	Credits: Michael Marsland/Yale University	Credits: Micheline Pelletier/Corbis
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Thomas A. Steitz	Ada E. Yonath
1/3 of the prize	1/3 of the prize	1/3 of the prize
United Kingdom	USA	Israel
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, United Kingdom	Yale University New Haven, CT, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute	Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel
b. 1952 (in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India)	b. 1940	b. 1939