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Today is the birthday of an Indian scientist who tied physics, biology, biochemistry and mathematics together.
Panchanan Mandal
Many people think that the whole of science is the contribution of scientists from Europe or America. But that is not true at all. The contribution of the Indian subcontinent to the realm of science is undeniable. The research and discovery of many Indian scientists has turned the corner of science. Such a scientist whose contribution to physics, biology and chemistry is immense, his name is G. N. Ramachandran. His full name is Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran. He was born on 7 October 1922 in Madras to a Tamil family. We who are students of physics or biology or biochemistry or molecular biology, almost everyone is familiar with his discovery and that is the Ramachandran plot by which the complex structure of peptide is better understood and X-ray tomography.
Another notable discovery is that he was the first to describe the triple-helical structure of collagen. In 1942, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science. He later joined the physics department of the same institute and obtained his master's and doctorate degrees under the supervision of Nobel laureate Sir CV Raman. Now let's come to his research, early in his research he was in the field of complex sciences like crystal physics and crystal optics. It was during this time that he created a mirror for X-ray microscopes that could create X-ray reflections. After completing his doctorate, he joined the University of Madras as head of the Department of Physics and began more detailed research into crystal physics. But no! In search of innovation, Ramachandran turned his attention to research into the most important macromolecules in biology and, as usual, found success in 1945 by analyzing the triple-helical structure of collagen. He did not stop after his discovery, but in order to get a deeper idea, he continued to study the structure of various polypeptides and developed a yardstick for determining and measuring peptides, which he called "yardstick".
This discovery later became known as the Ramachandran Plot. In fact, through his discoveries, Ramachandran combined biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics into what is now known as molecular physics. He invented a theory called "Conversation-Back-Projection-Algorithm" in 1981, which helped to greatly improve X-ray tomography. Now we don't know what X-ray tomography is, in fact it is a method of taking pictures of our body parts, such as if you injured your leg while playing football, you were taken to the hospital and X-rayed. X-rays showed that your ankle was sprained a little. And this thick matter was known through X-ray tomography. And this whole thing has been made easier by his "Conversation-Back-Projection-Algorithm" theory. He was awarded the Bhatnagar Prize for Peace in 1971 for his outstanding contribution to physics.
Towards the end of his life he was suffering from Parkinson's disease. This great scientist died on April 6, 2001 at the age of 8.
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Indian scientist G. N. Ramachandran
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