Back in PPSP, USM, we had a a few expatriate lectures who knew their subjects literally better than they knew the back of their hands - NBR- Anatomy; PC- Neurology; PKD- Pathology; DCA- Internal Medicine; Ed- Surgery; TS- O&G; ME, WA, LKC and many many more...Listening to VS Ramachandran just cascaded my mind into the psychedelic spiral staircase of time into my undergraduate days.
V. S. Ramachandran, product of Madras' Stanley Medical College graduate and a post graduate from Cambridge is a Professor in Neurology in University of California, San Diego. Known by some as Marco Polo of neuroscience, he has been a recipient of multiple academic and honorary awards including Padma Bhushan from India. Listen and learn....There is a reference on him in Wikipedia.too. I just happened to stumble upon him through one of the many free TED talk podcasts found on Apple's i-Phone 4!
N.B. Prof Ramachandran's grandfather was in the panel that drafted the Constitution of India and his father was an UN diplomat who was posted in various towns in India, Bangkok and England in tour of duty.
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