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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Ramamirtha Jayaraman
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1937|10|10}}
| birth_place = [[Tamil Nadu]], India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2019|4|14|1937|10|10}}
| death_place = [[Madurai]], Tamil Nadu, India
| residence =
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Microbial genetics]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Madurai Kamaraj University]] }}
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| known_for = Genetics of [[Escherichia coli]]
| awards = 1982 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]]
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'''Ramamirtha Jayaraman''' (10 October 1937 – 14 April 2019{{cn|date=May 2019}}) was an Indian geneticist, known for his studies on bacteria, especially on [[Escherichia coli]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=486 | title=Brief Profile of the Awardee | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=28 September 2016}}</ref> His researches on the control of transcription of bacteria are known to have evidenced the ''participation of accessory factors in transcription'' and their ''interactions with [[RNA polymerase]]''.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=28 September 2016 | pages=31}}</ref> He was a professor at the [[Madurai Kamaraj University]] (MKU)<ref name="Burma2011">{{cite book|author=D. P. Burma|title=From Physiology and Chemistry to Biochemistry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4CaQ3-x3LXMC&pg=PA238|year=2011|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-3220-5|pages=238–}}</ref> and a former scientist at [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]].<ref name="Letter from Ramamirtha Jayaraman to James D. Watson">{{cite web | url=http://libgallery.cshl.edu/items/show/41148 | title=Letter from Ramamirtha Jayaraman to James D. Watson | publisher=Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | date=2016 | access-date=30 September 2016}}</ref> Post his retirement, he served as an emeritus scientist at MKU.<ref name="Joshua Lederberg’s legacy to bacterial genetics">{{cite journal | title=Joshua Lederberg's legacy to bacterial genetics | author=R. Jayaraman | journal=Resonance | date=August 2008 | volume=13 | issue=8 | pages=716–729 | doi=10.1007/s12045-008-0079-9}}</ref> He authored the reference manual, ''Jayaraman Laboratory Manual in Molecular Genetics''<ref name="Jayaraman Laboratory Manual in Molecular Genetics">{{cite book | title=Jayaraman Laboratory Manual in Molecular Genetics | publisher=John Wiley & Sons | author=Kunthala Jayaraman, R. Jayaraman | year=1980 | pages=48 | isbn=978-0852264294}}</ref> and several pamphlets<ref name="Transcription of Bacteriophage T4 Genome In Vivo">{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.com/TRANSCRIPTION-BACTERIOPHAGE-T4-GENOME-VIVO/dp/B00N182AHY/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475221491&sr=1-7 | title=Transcription of Bacteriophage T4 Genome In Vivo | publisher=Cold Spring Harbor symposia on Quantitative Biology | author=E.B. Goldberg, R. Jayaraman | year=1971 | asin=B00N182AHY}}</ref> and articles; [[PubMed]], an online repository of medical papers has listed 59 of them.<ref name="Jayaraman R on PubMed">{{cite web | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Jayaraman%20R%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=21869495 | title=Jayaraman R on PubMed | publisher=PubMed | date=2016 | access-date=30 September 2016}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1982, for his contributions to biological sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=19 September 2016}}</ref>

He died on 13 April 2019.<ref>M.Hussain Munavar and K.Dharmalingam. 2020. R. Jayaraman (1937–2019). Current Science, 118(3):488-489.</ref>

== See also ==
* [[T4 rII system]]
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== References ==
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{{SSBPST recipients in Biological Science}}
{{Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Laureates of Tamil Nadu}}

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