About the book: 2020 / Venkatraman "Venky" Ramakrishnan is an American and British biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 together with Thomas Steitz and Adoy Yonath "for his studies of the structure and function of the ribosome." Since 2015, President of the Royal Society, member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Everyone knows about DNA, the molecule that stores our genes. But DNA is useless without the ribosome, a unique processor that deciphers the genetic code. It is the ribosome that is the engine of life. "Genetic detective. From the study of the ribosome to the Nobel Prize" is a fascinating story about the discovery of its incredibly complex structure and the solution to the ancient mystery of life.