Knighthood for Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the Indian-American scientist whose pioneering work in molecular biology won him the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has been honoured with a Knighthood by the royal establishment here in a rare recognition of achievements by foreigners based in Britain.
• 58-year-old Ramakrishnan, known to most as Venky, is based at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.
• He has been conferred Knighthood "for services to molecular biology" in the New Year Honours List 2012, according to an official announcement here.