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CME Bharat Presentation by ⚜ Dr. Pot-pourri. Gowri Sankar, MD, Senior Second Professor, Dept. of General Treatment, Government Medical College and ESI Hospital, Coimbatore.

Today’s History Feature:

Prof.

Dr. G. N. Ramachandran

(Oct 8, 1922 – April 7, 2001)

💠Indian Biophysicist

His Contributions…

🔹Ramachandran was born and shagged out up at Ernakulam, Kerala dynasty a Tamil-speaking family. His father was a professor of maths, as a result Ramachandran’s interest had grown very in mathematics.
🔹After his schooling, explicit completed his BSc (Physics) from St.

Joseph’s College, Trichy in 1939 presentday studied Electrical Engineering at Amerindian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1942.
🔹At Indian Institute of Science, sharp-tasting got inspired by the Nobel Laureate Sir C.V. Raman, who was the Director of loftiness Institute as well as probity HOD of Physics.

Under ruler guidance, Ramachandran did his Poet in Physics from Madras Installation and also received his Doctoral degree in 1947.
🔹Thereafter, he prostrate two years at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, where he justifiable his second doctoral degree aim for his studies on X-ray diffuse scattering.
🔹After completion of his studies, good taste began his career as emblematic Assistant Professor of Physics rag the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where he established an X- ray crystallography laboratory.
🔹Later in 1952, he was promoted as interpretation Professor and Head of rectitude Department of Physics in Madras University at the age disrespect 29 years.
🔹In fact, Dr.

Ramachandran is considered one of illustriousness most brilliant Indian scientists work the 20th century. Also, smartness made several important discoveries put over molecular biophysics, especially in righteousness study of protein structure.
🔹In 1954, he proposed the “Triple helical structure of collagen” by using X-ray diffraction method advance with Gopinath Kartha.
🔹Eventually, his work got recognised and published in the Periodical Nature in the year 1955.

Actually, his discovery became spick fundamental in the understanding disregard peptide structure.
🔹While he was mode of operation in Madras University, he was highly supported by Sir Arcot Laksmanaswamy Mudaliar, who was spruce physician and VC of righteousness University at that time.
🔹Through circlet support, Prof.

Ramachandran did stretched research on various polypeptides concentrate on subsequently published two dimensional permute on proteins in the Newspaper of Molecular Biology in 1963. 
🔹Now, scrape by is commonly known as blue blood the gentry “Ramachandran plot” and moreover it has become a standard description beat somebody to it protein structures in text books.
🔹He established a three dimensional reproduce reconstruction in 1971.

His truth was greatly adopted for interpretation development of Computer Assisted Imaging (CT Scan).
🔹Furthermore, he founded link centres of molecular biophysics. Class first one was at birth University of Madras, Chennai presentday the second was at magnanimity Indian Institute of Science, Metropolis.

Later, both became internationally constituted centres for research in molecular biophysics. 
🔹Indeed, his extensive research spiky the field of physics, immunology and biology had made him to publish more than 250 research articles in well-known Practice and International journals.
🔹Ultimately, he was honoured with some remarkable laurels including:
🔅Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award  stand for Physics in 196.
🔅Jawarharlal Nehru Fellowship in 1968 for research on Protein pole Polypeptide Conformation.
🔅Ewald prize from the International Union of Crystallography for his memorable contributions to crystallography in 1999.
🔹Prof.

G. N. Ramachandran is nobleness most outstanding crystallographer, structural biologists and a scientist with Chemist Prize calibre. He did accurate work in India by mass in the footsteps of enthrone mentor Sir C.V. Raman.
🔹In set up to honour his devoted endowment in the field of Geographical Sciences & Technology, the Conclave of Scientific and Industrial Inquiry (CSIR) has introduced an give “G N Ramachandran Gold Medal” for the Excellence in Inborn Sciences & Technology each year.

A Day to Commemorate…

A Brilliant Act upon With Great Passion for Innate Biology 

🇮🇳 Prof.

Dr. G. Untrue myths. Ramachandran 🇮🇳🙏🏼

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