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Shyamala was born on December 7, 1938, in Madras, Madras Province, British India (present-day Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) to P. V. Gopalan, a civil servant, and Rajam, her mother. Her parents were from two villages near the town of Mannargudi in Madras Province . [ 8 ]
Shyamala Gopalan was the mother of Kamala Harris. Shyamala [a] (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, [19] whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology.
Painganadu Venkataraman "P. V." Gopalan (1911 – February 1998) [1] was an Indian career civil servant [2] who served with the Government of Zambia and the Government of India. While as Director of Relief Measures and Refugees in Zambia , he oversaw the exodus of refugees from Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ) during the Rhodesian Bush War .
Her father, P.V. Gopalan was the first in his family to leave southern India for postings in Bombay, Calcutta and Delhi, (three of the country’s four major cities), Gopalan Balachandran ...
Shyamala was raised in India as the eldest daughter of a diplomat from a Tamil Brahmin family, ... Kamala Harris with her mother Dr. Shyamala Gopalan holding a copy of The Bill of Rights, receives ...
Shyamala Gopalan (b.December 7, 1938, d. February 11, 2009), was born in what was then Madras, British India (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India). Her father, P. V ...
Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan (1938–2009), was a biologist who arrived in the United States from India in 1958 to enroll in graduate school in endocrinology at the University of California, Berkeley. A research career of over 40 years followed, during which her work on the progesterone receptor gene led to advances in breast cancer research. [5]
Gopalan earned her doctorate by age 25 and went on to become a prominent breast cancer researcher. At Berkeley, she met Harris’ father, Donald Harris, whom she married in 1963 and divorced in 1971.