Nobel Prize winner Venkatraman Ramakrishnan to deliver lecture in Delhi on January 8

NEW DELHI: The British Council is organising "The Great Talk" with Nobel Prize winner and president of the Royal Society, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, in Delhi on January 8. The event is aimed at motivating young Indian students to plan their careers effectively by interacting with speakers from the UK.

Ramakrishnan will deliver a lecture titled 'On Nobody’s Word: Evidence and Modern Science’, in which he will trace the history of science that has existed ever since humans started making observations and conjectures about the world they inhabit.

Deputy director of the Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, Ramakrishnan received the Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine in 2007 and shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2009.

On obtaining his PhD in physics in 1976, he switched to molecular biology and after a long career in the USA moved to Cambridge in 1999. Additionally, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), the US National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina (the German Academy of Sciences) and a Foreign Member of the Indian National Science Academy.