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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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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,...
(image source: subhankar-biswas, deviantart.com)
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(image source: subhankar-biswas, deviantart.com)
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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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