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One of today's winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry earned a Ph.D. from Ohio University.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is an American born in India who is now a senior scientist with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. The lab's Web site says he earned a doctorate in physics from OU in 1976.
Ramakrishnan was honored with two other scientists for their work to map the atoms of ribosomes, the protein-making factories within cells.
The three laureates will share the $1.4 million award.
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