PHOTO! Here is a picture of American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan who has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz, and Ada Yonath have the Nobel prize for “studies of the structure of the ribosome” in an announcement moments ago.

The award includes a $1.4 million prize that will be presented to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and the other two on December 10. On Tuesday December 8, Venkatraman will present a lecture on his findings, indicates the Nobel Prize website today. The lecture will be at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University and later will be published online.

Chemistry is the third Nobel prize announced so far. On Monday, three Americans won for medicine for their discovery on the genetic operation of cells.

On Tuesday, three American won for physics for technology in digital photography. Literature will be announced this week and economics next week.