Friday, 20 March 2015

Who has been appointed as head of Britain's royal Society

Who has been appointed as head of Britain's royal Society

Options

1) Sir VenkatRaman Ramakrishnan

2) Amartya Sen

3) Swaraj Paul

4) Meghnad Desai

Answer

1) Sir VenkatRaman Ramakrishnan

Other Details

Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born American and British structural biologist, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath, for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.


Ramakrishnan was born in Chidambaram in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India



The President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society still in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as "The Royal Society".