Tamil Nadu-born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, one of the three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, on Thursday received the prize at a gala ceremony in Stockholm along with other recipients.The other Nobel laureates in literature, economics, physics and medicine also received their prizes from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal event in Stockholm’s Concert Hall. A record five women were awarded the Nobel this year.

Born in 1952 in Chidambaram and a senior scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, Ramakrishnan shared the Nobel prize with Thomas E Steitz (US) and Ada E Yonath (Israel) for their “studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”.

“This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry awards Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A Steitz and Ada E Yonath for having showed what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at atomic level,” the Nobel committee had said in its citation.