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Shyamala Gopalan [a] (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, [5] whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene has stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology. [6]
Harris's birth certificate, dated November 5, 1964 (left), an affidavit correcting her middle name from Iyer to Devi, dated February 18, 1965 (right). Harris' mother, Shyamala Gopalan , was a biologist whose work on the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast cancer research. [ 6 ]
Kamala Devi Harris [b] (born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025 under President Joe Biden. She was the first female U.S. vice president, making her the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history.
Kamala Harris credits her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, with informing her worldview and inspiring her to break glass ceilings in her own career.. The vice president was born to Shyamala, an ...
Shyamala Gopalan Harris immigrated to the United States from India. Born in Madras (now Chennai), India, Gopalan was just 19 years old when she left India alone.
Kamala Harris receives the oath of office as San Francisco's district attorney as her mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, holds a copy of the Bill of Rights in 2004.
He met his future wife, Shyamala Gopalan through the civil rights movement. [26] Harris was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1966 to 1967 and at Northwestern University from 1967 to 1968. He moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an associate professor in 1968.
As a lawyer and U.S. Senator, Harris’s identity in both her personal life and politics has been largely shaped by her background: her late mother, Shyamala Gopalan, who died in 2009, was an ...