Ramamirtha Jayaraman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ramamirtha Jayaraman

Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1937

Place of Birth: Tamil Nadu, India

Date of Death: 14-Apr-2019

Profession: biologist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Ramamirtha Jayaraman (10 October 1937 – 14 April 2019) was an Indian geneticist, known for his studies on bacteria, especially on Escherichia coli.
His researches on the control of transcription of bacteria are known to have evidenced the participation of accessory factors in transcription and their interactions with RNA polymerase.
He was a professor at the Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) and a former scientist at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
Post his retirement, he served as an emeritus scientist at MKU.
He authored the reference manual, Jayaraman Laboratory Manual in Molecular Genetics and several pamphlets and articles; PubMed, an online repository of medical papers has listed 59 of them.
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1982, for his contributions to biological sciences.He died on late night of 13 April 2019.
He is survived by his wife and two sons (Dr.Arul Jayaraman (https://engineering.tamu.edu/biomedical/profiles/jayaraman-arul.html) and Dr.Sachindranath Jayaraman (http://www.iisertvm.ac.in/faculties/sachindranathj.phpx)).