Today, October 8, marks the birth anniversary of Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran (1922–2001), a pioneering Indian scientist whose work transformed the understanding of proteins and medical imaging. Despite his groundbreaking contributions, he never received the recognition he deserved, including a Nobel Prize or India’s prestigious Padma awards. Ramachandran ’s work helped explain the fundamental structure of proteins, the building blocks of life, and laid the groundwork for techniques that allow us to see inside the human body without surgery. His insights were so ahead of their time that they continue to influence medicine, biochemistry, and structural biology today. Born in 1922 in India, Ramachandran showed early brilliance in science, going on to study physics and crystall

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