The Cinderella Molecule
Steven Shapin: Solving the Ribosome, 24 January 2019
Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
by Venki Ramakrishnan.
Oneworld, 272 pp., £20, September 2018,978 1 78607 436 2 Show More
by Venki Ramakrishnan.
Oneworld, 272 pp., £20, September 2018,
“... structure of the ribosome, each atom in its proper place. This is where Venkatraman Ramakrishnan comes into the story. Born in Tamil Nadu, he took a degree in physics at university in Gujarat in the year he turned 19, then left India to do his doctoral work at an unexceptional university in the American Midwest. ... ”
