India-born Nobel winner to head world's most eminent scientific academy

March 19, 2015 20:16

The next president of the Royal Society will be India-born Nobel-winning Cambridge researcher Prof Sir Venki Ramakrishnan.

Prof Ramakrishnan shared the 2009 chemistry Nobel Prize for discovering the precise structure of ribosomes - the molecular machines that manufacture proteins inside all living cells. He will succeed geneticist Sir Paul Nurse in December 2015.

The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. The position is one of the most important in British science.

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