ASHISH for announcing this sad news brings some personal memories A former friend from IISc shared a biography of Prof. Vijayan with me at the link here. Read through it in a single stretch like a hit fiction. Wanted to share this with you all at the time Prof. Vijayan departed us. link https://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/Vijayan_Biography.pdf
This is an excellent biography anyone here could read. It is the history of x-ray crystallography in India as well as Prof. Vijyan's stay in Dorothy Hodgkin's lab and first-hand descriptions of solution of the first structure of Insulin. Many of us who came to the US as international students of structural biology could relate a lot to his experience of going abroad to do post-doctoral and learn x-ray crystallography and be a witness to work on many revolutionary techniques in structural biology. A small excerpt from his book " Guy Dodson and Eleanor Dodson. They had been working with Dorothy on insulin from the early 1960s. Guy was from New Zealand and Eleanor from Australia. Margaret Adams, then a graduate student, left the lab on obtaining her doctorate degree a few months after I joined the lab. Ted (E.N.) Baker from New Zealand joined as a post-doctoral fellow in 1967, with initially special responsibility for installing and running the newly acquired 4-circle diffractometer. Tom Blundell, who took his doctorate from Oxford, also joined the group in the same year." The multi-cultural lab atmosphere and experiences there were absolutely enjoyable to read. As any who knows Prof. Vijayan, his sense of humor at times in this book was fun to read. At this time although very sad, it was appropriate to share this book with all my colleagues here. Personally inspired by Prof. Vijayan and took crystallography as a passion and never had a second thought about looking at this abstract art science. With respect to a scientist who want to contribute to India's science and inspired a generation of structural biologists in India RIP. respectfully Padayatti PS. *Pius Padayatti* On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 1:08 AM ASHISH ANILRAO DESHMUKH < 000079fffa49db31-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear All, > > With profound sorrow, we are sad to inform the demise of Prof. M. Vijayan > on the morning of 24th April 2022. Prof. M. Vijayan is one of the foremost > crystallographers of India and successfully established and expanded > macromolecular crystallography in the country. He also mentored several > successful researchers in his laboratory at the Molecular Biophysics Unit, > IISc. He will be deeply missed and fondly remembered forever. > > Regards, > Molecular Biophysics Unit > Indian Institute of Science > Bengaluru > India > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
