P. R. Mahadevan

摘要

Perunmadom Ramaiyer Mahadevan or PR, as he was affectionately referred to, was born on 20 May 1928 in Cochin, Kerala. He died after a brief illness on 27 April 2003 in Hyderabad. He was elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS), Bangalore in 1973. He leaves behind his wife Sita, two sons and two daughters. Behind this brief description lies the life and science of one of our leading biologists who was the earliest in discovering the power of a multidiscipli-nary approach to investigating biological phenomena, be it the cell wall of a fungus or the complex pathogenesis of a human disease, leprosy.