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Professor P. T. Narasimhan Passes Away

06-01-13

Distinguished Professor P. T. Narasimhan passed away on May 3rd, 2013 in Sunnyvale, California, USA at the age of 84. After a twenty five year career as a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur he retired and moved to the United States where he initiated a new phase of his research into novel medical and biological applications of magnetic resonance spectroscopy. He conducted part of this research as a Visiting Professor in the laboratory of Professor Scott Fraser at Caltech. Professor Narasimhan is survived by his wife of 57 years, Leena and their children Dr. Nalini Murdter, Dr. Vikram Narasimhan and Dr. Nandini Narayan and six grandchildren. Dr. Nalini Murdter was a Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar and then Senior Research Fellow from 1985-1990. [Full Obituary]

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Professors Arnold, Fraser, and Hou Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

04-19-11

Frances H. Arnold, Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, Scott E. Fraser, Anna L. Rosen Professor of Biology and Professor of Bioengineering, and Thomas Y. Hou, Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, have been elected to the 2011 American Academy of Arts and Sciences class of fellows. They have joined an assembly that was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other scholars to provide practical solutions to pressing issues. [Caltech Feature]

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