Complimenting the University of Mysore for its research on protein structure, scientist T.P. Singh said the determination of protein structure is a specialised field of research.
“You [the university] can compete with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) since only a few institutions are into research on protein structure,” he said at his centenary lecture on ‘Antibiotics and infectious diseases: a never-ending war between bacteria and humans, current perspectives on new weapons against bacteria” here on Friday.
Recollecting the contributions of physicist G.N. Ramachandran, who worked in the University of Madras before moving to IISc., he said the professor was more scholarly than scientists who had bagged the Nobel Prize in the field. His contribution to his field was colossal.
“People stop doing research after getting recognitions like the Nobel Prize. In my view, a greatest scientist is one who never stops working and continues to contribute for good science. On getting awards and recognitions, people turn into political figures, giving lectures,” Prof. Singh felt.
He recalled the contributions of scientists like Gopinath Kartha, a noted crystallographer of Indian origin in the United States, and eminent scientist Y.T. Thathachari. “I think researchers in Indian labs are best trained and they have a huge potential to excel,” Prof. Singh observed.
Vice-Chancellor K.S. Rangappa presided over the event.
Prof. Singh’s talk is the third in the varsity’s centenary lecture series.
The University of Mysore can compete with the Indian Institute of Science, since only a few institutions are into research on protein structure
T.P. Singh, scientist
