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Shyamala Gopalan [a] (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, [5] whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene has stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology. [6]
Shyamala Gopalan was the mother of Kamala Harris. Shyamala [a] (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, [19] whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology.
Kamala Harris credits her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, with informing her worldview and inspiring her to break glass ceilings in her own career.. The vice president was born to Shyamala, an ...
Gopalan and Harris eventually divorced in the early 1970s, when Kamala was 7, but Gopalan continued fighting for racial equality. She mentored students of color, counseled African-American women ...
Kamala Harris's father, Donald J. Harris, [10] arrived in the United States from Jamaica in 1961, for graduate study at UC Berkeley, and received a Ph.D. in economics in 1966. [11] Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan met in 1962 and were married in 1963. [12] [13] He would become a Stanford University professor of economics in 1972. [14] [15]
Gopalan gave birth to Kamala the same year she got her doctorate, 1964. Almost immediately, Gopalan gravitated to the Black community and found common cause in the Civil Rights Movement.
Shyamala Gopalan with her daughters, Kamala and Maya in 1970. Kamala Harris/Facebook. Shyamala Gopalan (b. December 7, 1938, d. February 11, 2009), was born in what was then Madras, British India ...
Painganadu Venkataraman "P. V." Gopalan (1911 – February 1998) [1] was an Indian career civil servant [2] who served with the Government of Zambia and the Government of India. While as Director of Relief Measures and Refugees in Zambia , he oversaw the exodus of refugees from Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ) during the Rhodesian Bush War .