India- Nobel Prize Winners & Nominees
By Ramana Annamraju
Indian Nobel Prize-Winners & Nominees in
Science & Medicine
Sir Venkataraman Ramakrsihnan
Birth Place Chidambaram,Tamilandu
We are hearing a lot about mRNA vaccines nowadays.
Venky Ramakrishnan's discovery is in the middle of it.
mRNA is a messenger particle that carries the genetic information to a ribosome. Ribosome is a minute cellular particle.
The ribosome then read that information. (like scanner)
ribosome takes that information and produces proteins that are front-line workers of our bodies.
Until recently, we did not have a clear idea of the structure of ribosomes.
That is where Venky Ramakrishnan's discovery place a role. The finding is mapping out the ribosome's atomic structure, i.e., the locations of the atoms in the ribosome. He used state of the art, Xray crystallography, and Neutron diffraction devices to locate those atoms,
For that, he won the Nobel prize.
His discovery can revolutionize the science of targeted drug delivery.
His discovery will play a significant role in designing future Vaccines and in treating cancers and a host of other diseases.
He was knighted in England by Queen.
He is referred in the scientific circle as "Ribosome Reader"
Hara Gobind Khorana
Birth Place: Raipur, West Punjab ( British India)
Nobel Prize in Medicine - 1968
.He is the first one to produce a synthetic gene. The genes that are synthetically manufactured in the labs
He won the Nobel Prize for discovering the function of RNA in Protein making.
Oligonucleotides are synthetic strands (parts) of DNA/RNA that are made in labs. His publications are widely cited in Gene Editing tools ( CRISPR ) research.
He is referred to as the father of Chemical Biology
I am sure Venky Ramakrishnan benefitted from his predecessor Hara Gobind Khorana's research
C.V. Raman
Birth Place: Tiruchirappalli, Tamandu
There is no field without Raman imprints. Raman spectrometers help identify undesired substances, fake medicines, fake art
chemical composition of samples, or monitor their changes. Raman Spectroscopy is presently being used on Mars with the Perseverance rover looking for extraterrestrial life.
https://medbricks.blogspot.com/2021/09/cv-raman-real-vs-fake.html
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Birth Place Lahore, Pakistan (British India )
Nobel Prize in Physics 1983
Professor - University of Chicago
Chandrasekhar was the nephew of another Nobel Prize winner C.V. Raman.
Chandrasekhar won the Nobel Prize for his studies on the evolution of stars and at what stage they become black holes.
1.44 solar masses, the minimum limit that is needed before a star collapses into a neutron star or black hole (following a supernova). That limit is called the "Chandrasekhar limit."
NASA named one of its famous observatories the 'Chandra X-ray.'
Carl Sagan was his student.
Google showed a Google Doodle in honoring Chandrasekhar's 107th birthday.
Dr.Ronald Ross
Birth Place: Almor, Uttarakhand, India
Nobel Prize in Medicine - 1902
An employee of Indian Medical Services.
Dr.Ronald Ross is the first to identify malaria parasites in mosquitoes and birds.
He was awarded The Nobel Prize for discovering the life cycle of malarial parasites in birds. Ross was the first to show that the bite of infected mosquitoes transmitted malarial parasites.
Ethnically British, but he spread research across all over India,
Secunderabad, Ooty, Calcutta, Assam, to name a few.
His mosquito sketches still are on display in Tea hospital in Assam.
Famous Nobel Prize Nomineesin Science and Medicine
Birth Place: Kolkata, India
Higgs Boson bears part of his name
Bose-Einstein Condensate - Fifth State of Matter
The real rock star who envisioned this phenomenon was Indian-born Mathematician Satyendra Nath Bose. He created an entire branch of mathematics with Albert Einstein called Bose-Einstein Statistics. Bose worked with several eminent scientists like Marie Curie, de Broglie, Niels Bohr, and Albert Einstein. BEC was experimentally realized 75 years after Bose's prediction. Another legendary scientist Paul Dirac gave the name "Bosons" to special particles who lost their individual identity in honor of Satyendra Nath Bose. His name is even more memorialized with God's particle called 'Higgs Boson'. It is a tribute to the human mind, how well scientific thought and curiosity can benefit humanity long after their passing. Please watch the video I made it a while ago. Still good.
Birthplace: Bangladesh (British India)
Polymath- wireless communications Radio -and
Microwave He discovered that plants could
produce electrical signals
He met in person Italian Radio inventor Marconi.
G. N. Ramachandran
Birth Place:2, Ernakulam, Kerala
Protein folding Protein and Polypeptide Conformation,
Birth Place: Pallam, Kerala
Inventor of Phantom particles called tachyons
travels faster-than-light, not yet discovered.
Meghan Saha
Birth Place: Dhaka, British India
He worked on Spectral analysis of the
stars and predicted their composition.
Birth Place "Bengaluru, India
Liquid Nitrogen - Carbon Nano Tubes
Skin Disease - post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL)
Birth Place: Kulithalai,Tamilnadu
Indian highest Civilian award Padma Bhushan
Plant Chemistry
Oxygen heterocyclics -congestive heart failure
Spent several years at Andhra University (My alumni) as a Head of the Department of Chemistry
Birth Place: Calcutta, India
Alkaloids - morphine, quinine
Birth Place: Bombay (British India)
Cosmic Rays interaction with Earth's atmosphere.
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) is India's
premier nuclear research facility bears part of his name.
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