Venkatraman receives Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan (Tamil: வெங்கட்ராமன் ராமகிருஷ்ணன்; born 1952 in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India) is a structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England.[1] He received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosomeEarly lifeVenkatraman Ramakrishnan was born in Chidambaram in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India.At the age of nine he moved to Baroda...

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Velankanni Church

Velankanni(Tamil:வேளாங்கன்னி,Meaning:Virgin of Velai,the town), also known as Vailankanni or "Velanganni", is a panchayat town in Nagapattinam district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a small town located on the shores of the Bay of Bengal 350 km south of Chennai (Madras) and 12 km south of Nagapattinam on the Coromandel Coast, in Tamil Nadu, India.Once a port that traded with Rome and Greece, the tiny commercial center gradually lost its...

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Dhanushkodi

Dhanushkodi or Dhanushkoti (Tamil : தனுஷ்கோடி) is a town/village at the southern tip of the Rameswaram island, at the eastern coast of the Tamil Nadu state of India.Dhanushkodi is situated in the South-East of Pamban. Danushkodi is about 18 miles West of Talaimannar in Sri Lanka. The Dhanushkodi railway line was destroyed in the 1964 cyclone from Pamban Station and a trainload of passengers was washed into the sea.Hindu MythologyHindu myth says that...

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