Nobel laureate and Indian-origin scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is on a three-day visit to the metropolis to meet relatives and friends.
The Indian-American, who won the Nobel prize in Chemistry, arrived in the city yesterday along with his son Raman, a cellist and daughter-in-law Melissa Reardon, a violinist.
Raman and his wife, who specialise in Western classical music, will be performing today at 'Sangat'-2009, a concert organised by the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation at the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) in South Mumbai.
Raman told PTI today that Ramakrishnan is visiting friends and relatives in the city and will later proceed to Chennai on Monday to attend a Carnatic annual music festival.
Raman said that his father was on a "purely personal" visit to the city and did not wish to speak to the media. "I have to respect my father's words," he said.
The 57-year-old Nobel Prize winner was to visit one of his friends at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Gautam K Jarori yesterday but did not turn up.
"Prof Ramakrishnan was supposed to meet me yesterday but did not come and I received no communication from him," Jarori said.Prof Ramakrishnan from MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (UK) shared the Nobel in Chemistry with Thomas A Steitz (US) and Ada E Yonath (Israel).
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