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.