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 <[email protected]> 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 < > [email protected]> 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 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/
