"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
7 October 2009
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 jointly to
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Ada E. Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
-----Biochemistry
One of my most favorite subjects. Infact, it's one of the subjects I wanted to pursue after graduation, but life had other plans. Following is an excerpt from an essay I wrote long ago (final year of graduation) about my career interests at that point:
Chemistry is a subject full of surprise and adventure. One can always learn something new whenever he/ she enters a chemistry lab, and the study of life through the eyes of chemistry (biochemistry) is what interests me most. This interest in chemistry was generated by an extremely dedicated chemistry teacher in my last two years of schooling and a wonderfully interesting professor of organic chemistry, Prof.S.Govindarajan, in my second semester at college.
Biochemistry and molecular biology are subjects in which lots of new things are discovered every day, or rather every moment, but still there is so much more to explore. This is exactly the reason why I want to master these subjects.
Congratulations to the laureates!
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