Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry (2009), Prof Venkatraman Ramakrishnan would interact with select Group of meritorious schoolchildren at Panjab University (PU) Auditorium at the PU Campus on January 4, Vice-Chancellor (Arun Kumar Grover said on Friday.
Grover recalled the association of Prof Ramakrishnan with PU as a summer school student at the Department of Physics in June 1969. He informed that Ramakrishnan would visit the Chandigarh Region Innovation & Knowledge Cluster (CRIKC) institutions from January 3 to January 5. He would address the colloquium on January 3 at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali. On January 4th, he would visit BMS Block Sector 25, Physics Department Sector 14 of PU campus.
At Physics Department, Ramakrishnan would interact with INSPIRE faculty at PU. PU had earlier decided to bestow its Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) on Prof Ramakrishnan but he had expressed his regrets and inability to participate in the Convocation.