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January 2010 / Times of India / Mumbai Edition |
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Nobel Venky had failed to clear IIT-JEE
Bangalore: Venkataraman Ramakrishnan won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 2009 but decades ago he had failed to clear entrance tests to the IITs and a reputed medical college.
At a public lecture at the Indian Institute of Science campus here he said he had appeared for the IIT entrance test but “did not get a single seat in IIT”. “My parents were somewhat old-fashioned; they did not believe in coaching classes (for entrance test),” Ramakrishnan told a packed J N Tata auditorium.
He also failed the entrance test to the Christian Medical College in Vellore. He explained that those days there were only a few seats for men. Years later, in 1981, after his PhD, he could not initially find a job even though he had applied in 50 universities.
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