Dear friends of Vijayan, it is wonderful that these memoirs/ biography were recorded for us to read and remember a great scientist. For me our friendship dates back to January 1967 when the shivering Indian post- doc arrived in oxford - during a snow storm - slithering on ice in his new leather shoes. Then our only responsibility was to get the insulin structure; and we worked and played together very happily. But Vijayan was also ambitious for India’s scientific achievement. There were great Indian theoretical crystallographers, ramachandran, Ramashan, but Vijayan was I believe the mover and shaker who led the establishment of the many great Indian laboratories now in existence.
It is a privilege to have known him. Eleanor Dodson On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 at 05:21, Karthik Selvam <karthikrulz....@gmail.com> wrote: > Prof Vijayan preferred to call the book as his memoirs, instead of > biography or autobiography. The book is a treasure to all of us. Thanks for > sharing the link. > > We miss you greatly sir. > Karthik Selvam > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 8:34 AM Pius Padayatti <ppadaya...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > ------------------------------ > > 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/
