Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan: From IIT JEE Failure to Nobel Prize Winner, Inspiring JEE Main Students
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Failed IIT JEE, Won Nobel Prize: Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan's Inspiring Journey
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Moneycontrol•25-02-2026, 11:45
Failed IIT JEE, Won Nobel Prize: Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan's Inspiring Journey
•Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, or "Venki," failed to clear the IIT JEE and CMC entrance exams.
•Despite initial academic struggles, a teacher sparked his lifelong curiosity in science.
•He won the National Science Talent Search Scholarship and pursued Physics at Maharaja Sayajirao University.
•Venki later moved to the US, shifting from Physics to Biology, focusing on ribosomes.
•His groundbreaking work mapping the atomic structure of the ribosome earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009, proving that one exam doesn't define a future.
