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	'''Baldev Singh''' (6 April 1904{{dash}}2 February 1998) was an Indian [[neurologist]]. He was best known for collaborative works with neurologists [[Jacob Chandy]], [[Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi]] and [[S. T. Narasimhan]] and together they have been credited to be pioneers in development of [[epilepsy]] surgery in India.<ref name="surgery">{{cite encyclopedia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7brLBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA134\|encyclopedia=Textbook of Epilepsy Surgery\|title=Epilepsy surgery in India\|publisher=CRS Press\|editor-last=Luders\|editor-first=Hans O.\|last1=Lachhwani\|first1=D.K.\|last2=Radhakrishnan\|first2=K\|year=2008\|pages=1616\|isbn=978-0-203-09170-8}}{{rp\|134–135}}</ref> They also helped in establishing the [[Neurological Society of India]] in 1951 at Madras (now [[Chennai]]). After training in the [[United States of America]], he returned to India and established himself at Delhi.<ref name="Society">{{cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oTRjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA153 \| title=The History of the World Federation of Neurology: The First 50 Years of the WFN \| publisher=Oxford University Press \| author=Johan A. Aarli \| year=2014 \|pages=153 \| isbn=9780198713067}}</ref> He was presented with the [[Padma Bhushan]] in [[List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1970–79)\|1972]] for his contributions in the field of medicine.<ref name="award70-79">{{cite web\|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954–2014)\|url=http://www.mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/YearWiseListOfRecipientsBharatRatnaPadmaAwards-1954-2014.pdf\|publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs (India)\|date=21 May 2014\|access-date=22 March 2016\|~~format=PDF\|pp~~=37–72\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115022326/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/YearWiseListOfRecipientsBharatRatnaPadmaAwards-1954-2014.pdf\|archive-date=15 November 2016}}</ref>		'''Baldev Singh''' (6 April 1904{{dash}}2 February 1998) was an Indian [[neurologist]]. He was best known for collaborative works with neurologists [[Jacob Chandy]], [[Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi]] and [[S. T. Narasimhan]] and together they have been credited to be pioneers in development of [[epilepsy]] surgery in India.<ref name="surgery">{{cite encyclopedia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7brLBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA134\|encyclopedia=Textbook of Epilepsy Surgery\|title=Epilepsy surgery in India\|publisher=CRS Press\|editor-last=Luders\|editor-first=Hans O.\|last1=Lachhwani\|first1=D.K.\|last2=Radhakrishnan\|first2=K\|year=2008\|pages=1616\|isbn=978-0-203-09170-8}}{{rp\|134–135}}</ref> They also helped in establishing the [[Neurological Society of India]] in 1951 at Madras (now [[Chennai]]). After training in the [[United States of America]], he returned to India and established himself at Delhi.<ref name="Society">{{cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oTRjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA153 \| title=The History of the World Federation of Neurology: The First 50 Years of the WFN \| publisher=Oxford University Press \| author=Johan A. Aarli \| year=2014 \|pages=153 \| isbn=9780198713067}}</ref> He was presented with the [[Padma Bhushan]] in [[List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1970–79)\|1972]] for his contributions in the field of medicine.<ref name="award70-79">{{cite web\|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954–2014)\|url=http://www.mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/YearWiseListOfRecipientsBharatRatnaPadmaAwards-1954-2014.pdf\|publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs (India)\|date=21 May 2014\|access-date=22 March 2016\|pages=37–72\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115022326/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/YearWiseListOfRecipientsBharatRatnaPadmaAwards-1954-2014.pdf\|archive-date=15 November 2016}}</ref>

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	Singh was born on 6 April 1904 in a well-to-do family.<ref name="Obit">{{cite journal\|url=http://www.ijpp.com/IJPP%20archives/1998_42_3/428-429.pdf\|title=Professor Baldev Singh (1904–1998): not a man but phenomenon\|journal=Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology~~\|format=PDF~~\|date=1998\|access-date=28 September 2016\|volume=42\|issue=3\|pp=428–429}}</ref> In school, he won various scholarships and further went to join the [[King Edward Medical University\|King Edward Medical College, Lahore]] in 1922 and graduated in 1927. He developed interest in neuroanatomy and later went to [[National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery\|National Hospital]] at [[Queen Square, London\|Queen Square]] in [[Central London]]. At the National Hospital, Singh was associated with various notable neurologists like [[Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain]] and [[MacDonald Critchley]]. Singh returned to India in 1931 and set up his medical practice in a village near [[Amritsar]]. With study of [[Alpha wave]], also called Berger's rhythm in memory of [[Hans Berger]], Singh undertook a training in electronics. In the 1940s, he developed an apparatus to record the electrical activity of the brains of laboratory animals. In 1950, he moved to Chicago and studied epilepsy patients of neurologist [[Percival Bailey]] taking their [[EEG]]s.<ref name="surgery"/><ref name="Obit"/>		Singh was born on 6 April 1904 in a well-to-do family.<ref name="Obit">{{cite journal\|url=http://www.ijpp.com/IJPP%20archives/1998_42_3/428-429.pdf\|title=Professor Baldev Singh (1904–1998): not a man but phenomenon\|journal=Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology\|date=1998\|access-date=28 September 2016\|volume=42\|issue=3\|pages=428–429}}</ref> In school, he won various scholarships and further went to join the [[King Edward Medical University\|King Edward Medical College, Lahore]] in 1922 and graduated in 1927. He developed interest in neuroanatomy and later went to [[National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery\|National Hospital]] at [[Queen Square, London\|Queen Square]] in [[Central London]]. At the National Hospital, Singh was associated with various notable neurologists like [[Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain]] and [[MacDonald Critchley]]. Singh returned to India in 1931 and set up his medical practice in a village near [[Amritsar]]. With study of [[Alpha wave]], also called Berger's rhythm in memory of [[Hans Berger]], Singh undertook a training in electronics. In the 1940s, he developed an apparatus to record the electrical activity of the brains of laboratory animals. In 1950, he moved to Chicago and studied epilepsy patients of neurologist [[Percival Bailey]] taking their [[EEG]]s.<ref name="surgery"/><ref name="Obit"/>

	The first department of neurology in India was established in 1949 by [[Jacob Chandy]] at the [[Christian Medical College & Hospital\|Christian Medical College]] of [[Vellore]] in the [[Madras State]] (now [[Tamil Nadu]]). Singh was unable to find suitable job at Amritsar or Delhi and he hence joined Chandy in 1950. Singh's work with Bailey helped him organize a surgery program at Vellore for epilepsy. On 25 August 1952, Chandy performed the first surgery in India on a 19-year-old boy suffering with infantile right [[hemiplegia]]. Singh supervised the EEG records of the patient during the surgery.<ref name="surgery"/>		The first department of neurology in India was established in 1949 by [[Jacob Chandy]] at the [[Christian Medical College & Hospital\|Christian Medical College]] of [[Vellore]] in the [[Madras State]] (now [[Tamil Nadu]]). Singh was unable to find suitable job at Amritsar or Delhi and he hence joined Chandy in 1950. Singh's work with Bailey helped him organize a surgery program at Vellore for epilepsy. On 25 August 1952, Chandy performed the first surgery in India on a 19-year-old boy suffering with infantile right [[hemiplegia]]. Singh supervised the EEG records of the patient during the surgery.<ref name="surgery"/>

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{{Infobox person
| name = Baldev Singh
| image = Baldev Singh (neurologist).jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|04|06|df=y}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|02|02|1904|04|06|df=y}}
| nationality = Indian
| other_names = Grandfather neuron
| occupation = [[Neurologist]], professor
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]] (1972)
}}
'''Baldev Singh''' (6 April 1904{{dash}}2 February 1998) was an Indian [[neurologist]]. He was best known for collaborative works with neurologists [[Jacob Chandy]], [[Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi]] and [[S. T. Narasimhan]] and together they have been credited to be pioneers in development of [[epilepsy]] surgery in India.<ref name="surgery">{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7brLBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA134|encyclopedia=Textbook of Epilepsy Surgery|title=Epilepsy surgery in India|publisher=CRS Press|editor-last=Luders|editor-first=Hans O.|last1=Lachhwani|first1=D.K.|last2=Radhakrishnan|first2=K|year=2008|pages=1616|isbn=978-0-203-09170-8}}{{rp|134–135}}</ref> They also helped in establishing the [[Neurological Society of India]] in 1951 at Madras (now [[Chennai]]). After training in the [[United States of America]], he returned to India and established himself at Delhi.<ref name="Society">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oTRjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA153 | title=The History of the World Federation of Neurology: The First 50 Years of the WFN | publisher=Oxford University Press | author=Johan A. Aarli | year=2014 |pages=153 | isbn=9780198713067}}</ref> He was presented with the [[Padma Bhushan]] in [[List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1970–79)|1972]] for his contributions in the field of medicine.<ref name="award70-79">{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954–2014)|url=http://www.mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/YearWiseListOfRecipientsBharatRatnaPadmaAwards-1954-2014.pdf|publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|date=21 May 2014|access-date=22 March 2016|format=PDF|pp=37–72|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115022326/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/YearWiseListOfRecipientsBharatRatnaPadmaAwards-1954-2014.pdf|archive-date=15 November 2016}}</ref>

== Works ==
Singh was born on 6 April 1904 in a well-to-do family.<ref name="Obit">{{cite journal|url=http://www.ijpp.com/IJPP%20archives/1998_42_3/428-429.pdf|title=Professor Baldev Singh (1904–1998): not a man but phenomenon|journal=Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology|format=PDF|date=1998|access-date=28 September 2016|volume=42|issue=3|pp=428–429}}</ref> In school, he won various scholarships and further went to join the [[King Edward Medical University|King Edward Medical College, Lahore]] in 1922 and graduated in 1927. He developed interest in neuroanatomy and later went to [[National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery|National Hospital]] at [[Queen Square, London|Queen Square]] in [[Central London]]. At the National Hospital, Singh was associated with various notable neurologists like [[Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain]] and [[MacDonald Critchley]]. Singh returned to India in 1931 and set up his medical practice in a village near [[Amritsar]]. With study of [[Alpha wave]], also called Berger's rhythm in memory of [[Hans Berger]], Singh undertook a training in electronics. In the 1940s, he developed an apparatus to record the electrical activity of the brains of laboratory animals. In 1950, he moved to Chicago and studied epilepsy patients of neurologist [[Percival Bailey]] taking their [[EEG]]s.<ref name="surgery"/><ref name="Obit"/>

The first department of neurology in India was established in 1949 by [[Jacob Chandy]] at the [[Christian Medical College & Hospital|Christian Medical College]] of [[Vellore]] in the [[Madras State]] (now [[Tamil Nadu]]). Singh was unable to find suitable job at Amritsar or Delhi and he hence joined Chandy in 1950. Singh's work with Bailey helped him organize a surgery program at Vellore for epilepsy. On 25 August 1952, Chandy performed the first surgery in India on a 19-year-old boy suffering with infantile right [[hemiplegia]]. Singh supervised the EEG records of the patient during the surgery.<ref name="surgery"/>

In 1950, [[Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi]] started the neurological department at the [[Madras Medical College|Madras General Hospital]] where [[S. T. Narasimhan]] was also associated. Ramamurthi performed his first surgery in epilepsy in 1954 and Narasimhan helped with EEG recording. Singh, Chandy, Ramamurthi and Narasimhan have been credited for pioneering the epilepsy surgery in India.<ref name="surgery"/> They also established the Neurological Society of India in 1951. Until then, all the disciples of neurology were not associated together as the field was still in an emerging state post [[independence of India]] in 1947.<ref name="Society"/>

Singh headed the newly inaugurated neurological department at the Tirath Ram Shah Hospital, New Delhi in 1954. He also taught at the [[Lady Hardinge Medical College]] and Willingdon Hospital (now called [[Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital]]) in Delhi. In 1964, as Singh was beyond his retirement age, he was invited for three years to help in establishing the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi]] (AIIMS). He was also an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Physiology at AIIMS.<ref name="Obit"/> In 1972, the [[Government of India]] presented him with the [[Padma Bhushan]] award, the third-highest civilian award, for his work in the field of medicine.<ref name="award70-79"/> He died on 2 February 1998 and was popularly called "grandfather neuron".<ref name="Obit"/>

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