| Authorised form of name | Gopalan; Coluthur (1918 - 2019) |
| Dates | 1918 - 2019 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Place of birth | Salem Town, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia |
| Date of birth | 29/11/1918 |
| Date of death | 03/10/2019 |
| Occupation | Nutritionist |
| Research field | Nutrition |
| Activity | Education:
Madras University, MBBS, MD; London University, PhD, DSc
Career:
Nutrition Research Laboratory; Director, National Institute of Nutrition; Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research; President, Nutrition Foundation of India
Honors:
Padma Award of Government of India
Memberships:
FRCPE
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/03/1987 |
| Age at election | 68 |
| OtherInfo | Coluthur Gopalan made useful and important contributions to our knowledge of protein requirements of humans; the mechanism of famine oedema; the basic deficiency of kwashiorkor and marasmus; lactation in undernourished women; and food toxins. He showed that aflatoxin produces hepatic carcinoma in primates. His suggestion that amino acid imbalance may be one cause of pellagra has been supported by recent work. Coluthur played an outstanding part in building up the Indian National Institute of Nutrition since it moved to Hyderabad in training nutritional scientists and in applying advances in nutrition to India and other developing countries.
Dr Coluthur Gopalan FRS died on 3 October 2019. |
| Source | Sources:
https://royalsociety.org/people/coluthur-gopalan-11517/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coluthur_Gopalan |
| Code | NA4200 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/001704 | Gopalan, Coluther | nd |
| EC/1987/10 | Gopalan, Coluthur: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1985 |