{"id":86312,"date":"2019-11-19T10:51:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T10:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=86312"},"modified":"2019-11-19T10:51:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T10:51:59","slug":"colathur-gopalan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/colathur-gopalan\/","title":{"rendered":"Colathur Gopalan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Colathur Gopalan, who died recently, was?<br> (a) Tamil Musician<br> (b) Nutrition Scientist<br> (c) Space scientist<br> (d) Film director<br> Answer: (b)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 3rd October, 2019; popular nutrition scientist Colathur Gopalan passed away in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He was 101.<\/li><li>He was former Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research (1974-1979). He was born in the year 1918, at Salem, Tamil Nadu.<\/li><li>Gopalan earned doctorate from University of London in 1949 and headed the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, from 1961 to 1974.<\/li><li>He was conferred Padmashri in 1970 &amp; Padma Bhushan in 2003.<\/li><li>Some of the prestigious awards he received are- WHO\u2019s Health for All medal in 1988; the International Union of Nutrition Sciences (IUNS) award for path breaking work on nutritional problems in developing countries in 1989. This union also recognised him as a Living legend in nutrition science in 2013. Federation of Asian Nutrition Societies (FANS) conferred him the Living Legend Award in August 2019.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/news\/doyen-of-nutrition-research-dr-colathur-gopalan-passes-away\/article29582479.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/news\/doyen-of-nutrition-research-dr-colathur-gopalan-passes-away\/article29582479.ece<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Colathur Gopalan, who died recently, was? (a) Tamil Musician (b) Nutrition Scientist (c) Space scientist (d) Film director Answer: (b) Related facts: On 3rd October, 2019; popular nutrition scientist Colathur Gopalan passed away in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He was 101. He was former Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research (1974-1979). He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":86320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[7173],"class_list":["post-86312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}