NBorn in India in 1952, where he graduated in Physics. But that was never his path. After obtaining his doctorate, he started all over again to become a molecular biologist. He who, in 2009, would receive the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with two other scientists, for his research into the structure and functions of the ribosome — reported in detail in his 2018 memoir “Gene Machine”. After three decades in the USA, he moved to Cambridge, England, and there directs the important Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology. President of the Royal Society between 2015 and 2020, he now publishes “Como Morvamos”, published by Temas e Debates, which this year already won the Award for Best Biology Book awarded by the Association of American Editors. Venki Ramakrishnan wrote it with a purpose: to give readers the mental tools that allow them, in the midst of the avalanche of information on how to counter aging and promote longevity, to distinguish magic, or extreme optimism, from true science. “Not being a recipe book that tells us what to do, by focusing on knowledge and information, the recipe ends up coming from the reader himself”, he says in this conversation with Expresso.