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B S Haldane: Vidyanand N Anjundiah
B S Haldane: Vidyanand N Anjundiah
B S Haldane: Vidyanand N Anjundiah
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Vidyanand N anjundiah
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biology, in which he never took a degree and was largely self- Known primarily
taught. He served in the first World War and was seriously for his path-
wounded. After the war he went into formal teaching and breaking
research and worked at many academic institutions. The last of contributions to
these were the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta and the our understanding
Genetics and Biometry Laboratory in Bhubaneshwar; Haldane of how evolution
and his wife had migrated to India in 1957. He died in Orissa in works, Haldane
1964. (For more on Haldane's Indian sojourn, see the was also a first-
accompanying article by Majumder). His wife, Helen Spurway, rate geneticist and
a distinguished student of genetics and animal behaviour in her biochemist.
own right, later moved to Hyderabad and survived her husband
by 12 years.
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, ... the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than
we can suppose'.
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J B S Haldane on which I met her, she offered me whisky in a copper bowl from
died of cancer on which a wild fox had just then been sipping water; and when she
1 December 1964. saw my dubious reaction, assured me that the whisky would
As he had wished sterilize everything. Some of my colleagues have more vivid
it to be, his body stories.) Between the two of them, they decided that an incident
was sent to a in which she was bitten by a policeman's dog after she stepped
medical college for on its tail was provocative enough for them to leave Britain and
use in the settle in India. Haldanes' strong Marxist leanings made him
dissection class. look upon this major venture as a commitment as much as an act
of choice.
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