Stockholm, Oct 7 (DPA) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, it was announced in Stockholm Wednesday.
Ramakrishnan and Steitz are US citizens, Yonath is from Israel.
The trio were cited “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome” one of the core processes in life, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
Ribosomes produce proteins that control the chemistry in all living organisms.
Their research is used by scientists hoping to develop new antibiotics.
The chemistry prize was the third of this year’s Nobel Prizes to be announced following the medicine prize announced Monday and the physics prize announced Tuesday.
