Venki is Franky
For him fame is a “distraction.” And he makes politically incorrect statements. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh endorsed the latest Indian Nobel laureate Venkatraman’s (Venki’s) recent comment during the inauguration of 97th Indian Science Congress held at Kerala University in Thiruvananthapuram’s that Indian scientists needed greater autonomy from red tape and local politics.
“I honestly don’t think my roots in India have much to do with it,” said Venkatraman Ramakrsihan after wining the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his pioneering work on ribosomes. He was born in 1952 at Chidambaram, Tamilnadu and earned his B.Sc. in Physics from M.S. University of Baroda, Gujarat. Venki left the country to pursue higher studies in the US where he later got settled and attained citizenship.
When asked how students could try hard to equal him and “win a Nobel for India”, he said “That is the wrong question to ask. You can’t go into science thinking of a Nobel Prize. You can only go into science because you are interested in it”
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