Dr. G. N. Ramachandran was a pioneering Indian biophysicist who founded the Molecular Biophysics Unit at IISc. Trained under Sir C. V. Raman at Cambridge, he became an expert in X-ray crystallography and molecular modeling. He is best known for creating the Ramachandran Plot, a fundamental tool in protein structure analysis, and for proposing the triple-helical structure of collagen. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he is remembered as one of India’s foremost scientists in structural biology.

Dr. P.K. Gopalakrishnan, an eminent sociologist and economist has played a crucial role in formulating the Science & Technology Policy of Kerala in 1972 and in establishing the R&D institutes under it. He took his Master’s Degree in Social Science from Institute of Social Sciences, The Hague. He completed his Ph.D. in Economic Sciences from Amsterdam University, The Netherlands under Prof. Tinbergen, a noble laureate. Dr. Gopalakrishnan affectionately called ‘PKG’ had occupied many important positions in Government of Kerala. He was associated in different capacities with Cardamom Wage Board, Taxation Enquiry Committee, Labour& Industrial Bureau and Backward Classes Reservation Commission. He was a Special Secretary to Planning & Economic Affairs Department during 1974-80.