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Voice of British science fights for future of UK research – Financial Times
Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan was focused on Brexit’s impact on the sector, and then Covid-19 hit
Venki Ramakrishnan reacted with incredulity to the two most momentous phone calls of his working life. In October 2009, he refused for several minutes to believe that his caller really was the secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informing him that he had won a Nobel chemistry prize, rather than a prankster putting on a Scandinavian accent.
Then early in 2015 Sir Venki (who was knighted in 2012) had a call from a vice-president of the Royal Society, the UK national academy…
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