Scientific Breakthrough

On the quest to make the coldest spot in the universe, Anita Sengupta, an Indian-American from West Bengal, is one of the masterminds working on NASA's latest physics experiment.

Very few know that it wasn’t Linus Pauling or Francis Crick but an Indian scientist from Madras who first discovered the structure of collagen, a type of protein. This remarkable discovery was made by Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran, or simply GNR, in India in the early 1950s. Here’s his fascinating story.