![]() ![]() Newsweek magazine named him a member of "The Century Club", one of the "hundred most prominent people to watch" in the 21st century. He has been called “The Marco Polo of neuroscience” by Richard Dawkins and "the modern Paul Broca" by Eric Kandel. He gave the 2003 BBC Reith Lectures and was conferred the title of Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 2007. ![]() Ramachandran has been elected to fellowships at All Souls College, Oxford, and the Royal Institution, London (which also awarded him the Henry Dale Medal). Ramachandran’s early work was on visual perception but he is best known for his experiments in behavioral neurology which, despite their apparent simplicity, have had a profound impact on the way we think about the brain. from Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. at Stanley Medical College in Madras, India, and subsequently obtained a Ph.D. He is currently the Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, Professor in the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. ![]() "Rama" Ramachandran is a neurologist best known for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and psychophysics. ![]()
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