June 22, 2018:
Ramakrishnan, who shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2009 with Thomas A Steitz and Ada Yonath, is the president of the Royal Society.
University of Cambridge has conferred honorary degree of Doctor of Science on Nobel laureate Venkatraman “Venki” Ramakrishnan for his contributions to the Medical Research, including his work into Ribosomal structure and function.
Ramakrishnan, who shared Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2009 with Thomas A Steitz and Ada Yonath, is President of the Royal Society.
He received the honour at University’s Honorary Degree congregation at Senate House on Wednesday.
Highest accolade the university can bestow, this year’s recipients included 99-year-old classicist and epigrapher Joyce Reynolds, believed to be the oldest recipient in Cambridge’s history.
Other recipients included Former Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Leszek Borysiewicz, Physiologist Frances Ashcroft, Genome Editing Pioneer Emmanuelle Charpentier, Poet and Literary Scholar Michael Edwards, Historian Robert Evans and Historian, Social-Scientist and Author of Seminal works on US race relations, Ira Katznelson.
According to Uuniversity’s traditions, the day of Honorary degree congregation is a “scarlet day”, so called because doctors wear scarlet instead of black gowns. Flags were flown to mark the occasion and the bells of the university church rang out as processions walked around Senate House Yard.
Honorary degrees have been conferred in University for last 500 years. One of the earliest recorded recipients of University’s honorary degrees was in 1493, when Poet John Skelton was honoured.
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