* GOPALSAMUDRAM NARAYAN RAMACHANDRAN
BORN IN - 8th OCTOBER 1922 (ERNAKULAM)
PASSED AWAY IN - 7th APRIL 2001
* POPULARLY KNOWN AS RAMCHANDRAN PILOT
CAREER -
* IN 1942 HE JOINED THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE BENGALURU ( IN ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT)
* HE CHANGED TO DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS ( WHERE HE UNDER SUPERVISION OF PROF DR C V RAMAN)
* MSTER DEGREE IN PHYSICS IN MADRAS UNIVERSITY
* DURING HIS Dsc Degree He CREATED AN X-RAY FOCUSING MIRROR FOR THE X-RAY MICROSCOPE
* In 1952 CRYSTAL PHYSICS
* USING X-RAY DIFFRACTION RAMCHANDRAN ALONG WITH GOPINATH KARTHA PROPOSED AND PUBLISHED THE TRIPLE HELICAL STRUCTURE OF COLLAGEN IN 1954.
* In 1970 HE FOUNDED MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS UNIT IN IISC BENGALURU
* RAMACHANDRAN AND A V LAKSHMI NARAYAN DEVELOPED CONVOLUTION BACK PROJECTION ALGORITHM
* In 1981 FOUNDING MEMBER OF WORLD CULTURAL COUNCIL
AWARD -
* 1961 - SHANTI SWAROOP BHATNAGAR AWARD IN PHYSICS
* IN 1968 HE AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS JAWAHARLAL NEHRU FELLOWSHIP FOR RESEARCH IN PROTEIN AND POLYPEPTIDE CONFORMATION
* 1999 - ROYAL LONDON SOCIETY FELLOWSHIP
* EWALD PRIZE - ( BY INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY)
( HE WAS NOMINATE FOR NOBEL PRIZE FOR FUNDAMENTAL CONTRIBUTION IN PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION)
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