Sculpture of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Date
2020
Sitter
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Biochemist
Creator
Marc Quinn (1964, British) , Sculptor
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (sculpture): 410mm
width (sculpture): 180mm
depth (sculpture): 230mm
width (sculpture): 180mm
depth (sculpture): 230mm
Subject
Description
Bust of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan depicted with open necked shirt and on a square base.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is a British-American structural biologist, he was elected a Fellow in 2003 and served as President between 2015 and 2020. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2009 for his work in the functions of ribosomes with T A Steitz and A Yonath.
Bust of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is a British-American structural biologist, he was elected a Fellow in 2003 and served as President between 2015 and 2020. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2009 for his work in the functions of ribosomes with T A Steitz and A Yonath.
Bust of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan.
Object history
Commissioned by the Council of the Royal Society in 2020.