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The life of Prof. Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran (more popularly known as GNR among his colleagues and
students), one of the greatest and yet least sung savants of science in India, is as inspiring as it is melancholic.
Today is his birth centenary.

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From the groundbreaking research on the structure of collagen & on peptide conformations undertaken at the Madras University, to founding and nurturing the Molecular Biophysics Unit (@MBU_IISc) at @iiscbangalore,...

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...and later on developing the convolution-backprojection algorithms (which greatly improved the quality and practicality of X-ray tomography) - he has left indelible footprints everywhere on the field of structural biology.

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Tea, Triumph, Tragedy. Co-authored column on the forgotten Indian genius who saved millions of lives. [Long read.] #ForgottenIndianScientists swarajyamag.com/science/brahma…
Qaid-e-hayat aur band-e-gham asl mein dono ek hain, phir maut se pehley aadmi gham se nijat paye kyoun?

Co-authored column on the the forgotten Indian wizards and the birth of modern forensics. [Long read.] #ForgottenIndianScientists swarajyamag.com/science/the-fo…
Please read, share, and support articles on science and on the history of our science and our scientists. Our governments have forgotten them; we shouldn't. We wouldn't. #ForgottenIndianScientists
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