Dorairajan Balasubramanian was born on 28 August 1939 in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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Dorairajan Balasubramanian graduated in Chemistry from Madras University in 1957 and secured his master's degree in Chemistry with first rank in 1959 from BITS, Pilani.
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Dorairajan Balasubramanian moved to the United States in 1960 for researching for his doctoral studies and completed it in 1965 to obtain PhD in biophysical chemistry from Columbia University.
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Dorairajan Balasubramanian continued in the United States for his post doctoral research as a Jane Coffin Childs Fund Fellow at the University of Minnesota Medical School till 1966.
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Dorairajan Balasubramanian returned to India in 1966 and joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur as a lecturer where he rose in ranks over the years to become an assistant professor and a professor.
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Dorairajan Balasubramanian had been appointed as one of the honorary advisory committee members for the International Conference on Genome Biology 2019 by the School of Biological Sciences of Madurai Kamaraj University.
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Dorairajan Balasubramanian started his research activities in 1965 focusing on the structure and functions of proteins and polypeptides and worked on the thermodynamic analysis of their stability.
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Dorairajan Balasubramanian has presented more than 170 scientific papers and has contributed in popularizing science by writing columns in leading newspapers such as The Hindu and The Times of India since 1980.
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Dorairajan Balasubramanian received the Ranbaxy Award in 1990, the Fukui Award of the National Foundation for Eye Research, United States, in 1991 and Dr Mahendra Lal Sircar Prize from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 1994.
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Dorairajan Balasubramanian received the Om Prakash Bhasin Award and the Kalinga Prize in 1997 and the next year, he received Goyal Prize of the Goyal Research Foundation and J C Bose Medal of the Indian National Science Academy.
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Dorairajan Balasubramanian received a third award in 2002 from the Department of Science and Technology, the National Prize for Science Popularization.