Story Summary: Bokova elected first woman UNESCO director-general – SummaryParis – Bulgarian diplomat Irina Bokova was Thursday officially elected the first woman director-general of UNESCO, the Paris-based scientific and cultural organization said late Thursday. The 57-year-old Bokova was confirmed by a vote of the 193-mem. CERN researcher placed under investigation for terrorismParis – A 32-year-old French-Algerian physicist working at the CERN nuclear research centre has been placed under investigation on charges of associating with known criminals in a terrorist undertaking, French media reported Tuesday. He shares the prize with fellow-American Thomas A Steitz and Israels Ada Yonath for the study of the structure and function of the ribosome – the cells protein factory. The long term basic research in which he was involved had already led to breakthroughs as the ribosome was starting to show its medical importance, he said. Ramakrishan, who is better known as Venky among his colleagues and friends, joins a list of several Nobel laureates at the laboratory. He came to Britain from the US in 1999, joining the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology which he has co-led since 2006. From 1978 to 1982, Ramakrishnan worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the department of chemistry at Yale University, where he worked on a neutron-scattering map of the small ribosomal subunit of E Coli. From 1978 to 1982, Ramakrishnan worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the department of chemistry at Yale University, where he worked on a neutron-scattering map of the small ribosomal subunit of E Coli. After his postdoctoral fellowship, Ramakrishan joined the biology department of Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US where he worked as a biophysicist between 1983 and 1995. Between 1995 and 1999, he was a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Utah before moving to Britain. His many awards include the 2007 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine, the Heatley Medal of the British Biochemical Society and Datta Medal and Lecture awarded in Vienna in 2007. Copyright DPA(c) 2009 www….Read the Full Story

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