V.S. Ramachandran
| Vilayanur S. Ramachandran | |
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Ramachandran at the 2011 Time 100 gala
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August 10, 1951 Tamil Nadu, India |
| Residence | San Diego, California |
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| Known for | Research in neurology, visual perception, phantom limbs, synesthesia, autism, body integrity identity disorder |
| Awards | Ariens-Kappers medal (1999), Padma Bhushan (2007), Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (2014) |
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| Institutions | University of California, San Diego |
Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran (born August 10, 1951) is a neuroscientist known primarily for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego.
Ramachandran is an exceptionally well known scientist. He is the author of several books that have garnered widespread public interest. These include Phantoms in the Brain (1998), "A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness" (2004) and The Tell-Tale Brain (2010). In addition to his books Ramachandran has presented keynote addresses and public lectures in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia and India. He has been profiled in the New Yorker and the Indian Swarajya Magazine. Ramachandran has been called "The Marco Polo of neuroscience" by Richard Dawkins and "the modern Paul Broca" by Eric Kandel. In 1997, Newsweek named him as a member of the "Century Club" one of the most prominent people to watch in the next century. In 2008, he was listed as number 50 in the Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll. In 2011, Time listed him as one of "the most influential people in the world" on the "Time 100 list".
Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran (in accordance with some Tamil family name traditions, the town of his family's origin, Vilayanur, is placed first) was born in 1951 in Tamil Nadu, India. His father, V.M. Subramanian, was an engineer who worked for the U.N. Industrial Development Organization and served as a diplomat in Bangkok, Thailand. Ramachandran attended schools in Madras, and British schools in Bangkok. Ramachandran obtained an M.B.B.S. from the University of Madras in Chennai, India, and subsequently obtained a Ph.D. from Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He then spent two years at Caltech, as a research fellow working with Jack Pettigrew. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego in 1983, and has been a full professor there since 1998.
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