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Saturday, February 20, 2010

352. The Madras Triple Helix?

The “Madras triple helix” is the name assigned by scientific communities in the West to the proposed molecular model of what?

It is quite possible that the name came about due to the difficulty faced by western scientists in pronouncing the names of the Indian scientists who came up with the break-through.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

its for the fibrous protein collagen.

Ozymandias said...

Collagen, of course, solved at the Department of Crystallography by students under the supervision of Gopalasamudram N. Ramachandran, of the then Madras University from Kangaroo tail fibre. There's an auditorium in the University named the Triple Helix Auditorium.

Kaushik said...

oil triple helical structure of collagen, first proposed by Ramachandran's group from Madras