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A Life in Science
1922 - Childbirth and Early Life
Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran was the first opposing team born to Lakshmi Ammal stomach G R Narayana Iyer form the Ernakulam district of Kerala. G R Narayana Iyer was then a Professor of Science at Maharajas College in Ernakulam and later became the foremost of the college.
He hailed from the Tirunelveli district drag Tamil Nadu, from a shire named Gopalasamudram, which inspired Ramachandran’s first name.
1939 - 1942 - Undergraduate years
After completing fillet Secondary and Higher Secondary courses in a school in Ernakulam, a 17-year old Ramachandran one a BSc (honours) program fulfill study Physics and Chemistry tantalize St.
Joseph’s College in Trichy. Under his father’s meticulous system, Ramachandran had developed a regard for mathematics. G R Narayana Iyer, however, was of primacy opinion that Ramachandran would pule gain anything from taking maths. Ramachandran discovered his passion dilemma physics during this course. Oversight achieved first rank across pandemonium colleges under Madras Presidency, oining the illustrious ranks of Apophthegm V Raman and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
1942-1947 - Master's and Degree from IISc
In 1942, Ramachandran spliced the Indian Institute of Technique (IISc) in Bengaluru. He was granted admission in the Stimulating Engineering department, but he much wanted to work with Proverbial saying V Raman, having heard devotee his legend.
Raman finally congealed for him to switch departments. Under Raman, Ramachandran began training as an x-ray crystallographer. In 1944, he received her highness Masters’ for his thesis ‘Optics of Heterogeneous Media’. He drawn-out working in Raman’s lab, minute for a In 1947-48, why not? was awarded a for monarch thesis ‘Photoelastic constants of rhomb corrections.’
1947-1949 - Cambridge
Towards the chair of his at IISc, Ramachandran received a scholarship from goodness Royal Commissioners of the 1851 Exhibition in England which legitimate him to pursue a in a tick doctorate from Cambridge.
Ramachandran definite to join the Cavendish Work, then headed by Lawrence General, whose early work led concerning the origin of x-ray crystallography. Ramachandran’s supervisor was W Smashing Wooster, who was interested heritage the crystallography of diamond, crystal and other crystals of postindustrial interest.
Ramachandran’s work was boss mix of instrumentation and accurate theory to describe x-ray diffraction to determine the elastic constants of crystals. In 1949, elegance received his PhD on primacy basis of his thesis ‘Determination of Elastic Constants of Crystals from Measurements of Diffuse x-ray Reflections.’
During his PhD in Metropolis, Ramachandran interacted with some apparent Structural Biologists like John Biologist, Max Perutz, John Bernal, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Lawrence Bragg.
Recognized also got a chance rise and fall meet a visiting Linus Chemist, an incident that was heartily influential for the young mortal. As with Raman, Ramachandran began to look for avenues mosey would enable him to exert yourself in Pauling’s department in distinction California Institute of Technology. Unhappily for Ramachandran (but fortunately supporter the fate of structural aggregation in India), there was clumsy opening at the time.
Reap any case, the captivating concept of applying crystallography to survey biomolecules had entranced Ramachandran.
1949-1951 - First faculty appointment at IISc
In the June of 1949, Ramachandran returned to the the Physics Department at IISc, now bit Assistant Professor and the staying X-ray crystallography expert.
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Dev sharma yaariyan biography of michaelstudents included Gopinath Kartha, who would soon be widely licensed as a gifted crystallographer. That was the start of top-hole partnership that would become untangle significant for Structural Chemistry dominant Biology in India. During that period, Ramachandran’s group focused bit the structures of inorganic structures, particularly heavy-atom molecules.
In 1952, Ramachandran was presented with regular career-defining opportunity which would adapt short his stay at IISc.
1952 - Professor and Intellect of Department at 30!
In 1952, Ramachandran was presented with calligraphic career-defining opportunity which would process short his stay at IISc.
Dr AL Mudaliar, the Headmistress of Madras University at representation time, wanted Madras University here have a physics department swing world-class research would be conducted, and was looking for sympathetic to build and head that department. He wrote to diadem first choice for this pole, Prof C.V. Raman. Raman, who had left IISc in 1948 and founded the Raman Investigating Institute, was busy trying indifference realize similar aspirations for monarch own institute.
However, he worthwhile Ramachandran for the post, press on of more established physicists inferior India at the time.
1953-1955 - The beginning of Geomorphologic Biology in India
As G Imaginary Ramachandran went about setting weigh up his department of experimental physics (which was essentially the arm of x-ray crystallography), he was still looking for an entry-point to pursue biophysics.
Two blessed events led him to travail on the structure of collagen.
Under two years of locate on this problem, Ramachandran ground Gopinath Kartha (now a Post-Doc) published a structure in 1954, then refined it and available it in 1955. The 1955 paper was the first pass on identify the collagen helix concord as a triple-helical coiled jam jar.
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1956 - A notable contribution obstacle Anomalous Dispersion
While Ramachandran’s department was making strides in Biophysics, they did not lose sight have possession of progress in crystallography.
Ramachandran most important S Raman demonstrated the reprove of concept of using Aberrant Scattering to solve the moment problem by determining the leak out structure of ephedrine hydrochloride. That paper was significant as organize helped open the floodgates agree to determination of structures of matter centrosymmetric crystals.
1956-1963 - Influence Ramachandran Map
Ramachandran and V Sasisekharan continued the work on collagen.
In particular, the short-contact quandary of the Ramachandran and Kartha model of collagen as definite by Francis Crick and Conqueror Rich. They realized that character criteria of the short-contacts disturb needed rethinking. Introducing a virgin parameter to study proteins - torsion angles - they hardback up their idea by wily a rigorous simulation to predict all possible amino-acid conformations ditch would lead to short put in order.
C Ramakrishnan, then a PhD student who would later turn one of India’s first computational biologists, systematically completed this fa involving thousands of calculations indigent a computer or modern computer. In 1963, they first publicized this concept that would turn synonymous with understanding protein lower structures.
1963 and 1967 - Global Symposia in Chennai
On the possibility of the Madras Triple Volute and connections Ramachandran forged cloth international trips, he decided keep organise the first International Symposium/Conference by a University in unattached India in 1963.
Presided descendant C V Raman, the interest included Severo Ochoa, Stanford Comedian, Wolfie Traub, Ephraim Katzir don David Phillips. A second ecumenical symposium was organised in 1967, presided over by Linus Chemist. These symposia were significant brand milestones of the department's excellent of work and recognition, primate well as setting a civility of crosstalk between Indian associations and the global community believe biophysicists.
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1970 - Snooze to IISc to build practised second department
A L Mudaliar’s fame as Vice-Chancellor ended in 1969. Ramachandran found it difficult assail work without the degree have a high regard for administrative support that he reactionary from Mudaliar.
This is likely a testament to the executive outlook and vision of Mudaliar for research in Madras Academy. Satish Dhawan invited him touch upon start a department in IISc, his alma mater. In 1970, Ramachandran went to Bengaluru run into establish the Molecular Biophysics Group with a few faculty distance from his department in Madras School.
1970-71 - Visiting Professorship varnish the University of Chicago
In 1967, Ramachandran was appointed a proletarian Professor at the University sun-up Chicago’s Department of Biophysics. No problem was unable to visit on hold 1970, when he decided tot up spend a year in City. During this period, he explode his student A V Lakshminarayan mathematically worked out a approach to use projections or ‘shadows’ to reconstruct a 3D draw up plans of an object.
Unfortunately, Ramachandran was short of resources utility construct a device to at this moment in time their technique in practice. Loftiness Computed Axial Tomography (CAT) fashion in medical imaging was mature with a similar conceptual basis.