Bangalore: At a public lecture at the IISc in Bangalore, Venkataraman
Ramakrishnan who won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 2009 recalled that he
appeared for the IIT entrance test and in the reputed CMC (Christian Medical
College), Vellore but did not get a single seat.
Ramakrishnan also recalled that years later, in 1981, after his
post-doctoral, he could not initially find a job even though he had put in
50 applications in different universities (overseas) without success. He
remembered his journey from Baroda where he went to school and college
before moving to Ohio University for his Ph.D. He shifted to Baroda from
Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu when he was three. He noted that he 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 (in preparation for entrance test)," Ramakrishnan told a packed J N
Tata Auditorium, where many could not even enter because it was crowded.
They (his parents) thought coaching classes were "nonsense".
Also, giving an explanation for not qualifying the entrance tests for the
medical college, he said that those days, there were only a small number of
seats for men.
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