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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.
One bold move by Shyamala Gopalan would change the trajectory of her life and the course of U.S. history. ... At that time in India, particularly in her conservative Tamil Brahmin community, she ...
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]
Shyamala Gopalan, American-Indian biomedical scientist, Mother of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris [16] Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer , Indian lawyer and member of the Constituent Assembly of India responsible for framing the Constitution of India [ 17 ]
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 .