It’s wonderful to hear from you all about the accomplishments of Dr.Vijayan. Noble contributions live forever indeed in the scientific community.
-Dharma On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 11:05 PM Eleanor Dodson < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[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 >> > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > -- *Dharma- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -* ######################################################################## 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/
