A former professor of the University of Madras has appealed that the Guindy campus be renamed as Prof. G.N. Ramachandran Campus for Basic Sciences.
G. Shanmugam, former head of the Department of Biophysics at the University, who was also the scientist’s student, has sought the name change since during GNR’s tenure as many as 20 Nobel laureates visited the department and westerners nicknamed it ‘Ramachandran lab/The Madras School of Biophysics.’
“A student of Nobel laureate C.V. Raman, GNR had narrowly missed the Nobel prize. But his internationally acclaimed work ‘Determination of Triple Helix Structure of Collagen’ and ‘Ramachandran plot’ are included in all modern text and reference books,” Mr. Shanmugam said.
