M. Vijayan

Leading structural biologist Mamannamana Vijayan, who laid the foundations of protein crystallography in India, breathed his last on 24 April 2022.


  • He played a prominent role as part of Dorothy Hodgkin's team in the unravelling of the structure of insulin.
  • Vijayan was honoured with the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1985 and the Padma Shri in 2004. ....

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