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Today (June 4, 1941) is the birthday of Darshan Ranganathan, the most famous pioneer researcher on protein folding.

Today (June 4, 1941) is the birthday of Darshan Ranganathan, the most famous pioneer researcher on protein folding.

Darshan Ranganathan was born on June 4, 1941, to Vidyavati Morgan and Shanti Swaroop. He received his primary education in Delhi. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1967 from the University of Delhi. A lecturer at Miranda College, Delhi, he later became the Head of the Department of Chemistry at the College. He then went on to study at the Royal Society 'Exhibition 1851' in London and went to Imperial College London for postgraduate study. There he studied with Trek Barton. Darshan Ranganathan started his research in 1970 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. She Married Ranganathan and was a professor at the same Kanpur Institute of Technology.

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Together with her husband, she authored a book, Challenging Problems in Organic Reactivity (1972), The Art of Biotech: The Challenge for Chemists (1976), and Some Other Challenging Problems in Organic Reaction (1980). He was also involved in the publication of "Current Organic Chemistry Brief Notes". He received scholarships and continued his research in Kanpur on that basis. She was unable to join as fieldwork due to an unwritten rule of law because her husband was on duty there. He continued his research in 1993 at the Regional Laboratory of the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, and in 1998 at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad. There he became co-director.

Darshan Ranganathan has done a lot of work in biochemistry. He is best known for his "pioneering study of protein folding". He is "highly regarded for his study of molecular composition, molecular design, synthesis of reactive peptides, and synthesis of microtubules." From there, he developed a protocol for the automatic extraction of one of their constituents, imidazole, which played a major role in pharmacology.

Darshan Ranganathan, best known for his pioneering work on protein folding, passed away on June 4, 2001, on his 60th birthday due to breast cancer. In her memory, her husband created a bi-annual lecture in 2001 called Professor Darshan Ranganathan Memorial Lecture. Female scientists eminent in science and technology will be invited to give lectures.

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