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Early life. The small house (centre) at Kamarpukur, where Ramakrishna lived. His family shrine (left), with birthplace temple on the right. Birth and childhood. Ramakrishna was born on 18 February 1836, [11] in the village of Kamarpukur, in the Hooghly district of West Bengal, India, in a very poor and pious Bengali Brahmin family. [12] .
Sep 19, 2024 · Quick Facts. Originally called: Gadadhar Chatterji or Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya. Born: February 18, 1836, Hooghly [now Hugli], Bengal state, India. Died: August 16, 1886, Calcutta [now Kolkata] (aged 50) Notable Family Members: spouse Sarada Devi.
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Venki Ramakrishnan, Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath, for his research into the atomic structure and function of cellular particles called ribosomes.
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Ramakrishnan was born in 1952 in Chidambaram in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India. His parents, Prof. C. V. Ramakrishnan and Prof. Rajalakshmi Ramakrishnan were both scientists, [18] [19] and his father was head of the department of biochemistry at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance. When I was born, my father, C.V. Ramakrishnan, was away on a postdoctoral fellowship in Madison, Wisconsin, with the famous enzymologist David Green.
Sri Ramakrishna, who was born in 1836 and passed away in 1886, represents the very core of the spiritual realizations of the seers and sages of India. His whole life was literally an uninterrupted contemplation of God.
Born: 1952, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India. Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome” Prize share: 1/3. Work.
