Dr. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan
- Nobel Laureate. Winner of 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

... the only place I can really listen to Carnatic Music in England was to go to London and go to the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan ... So I certainly could not have refused a request from Bhavan to give a lecture at its Chennai Centre, having taken advantage of the Bhavan over many years when I lived my life in Cambridge.