John Barnabas was an Indian evolutionary biologist, known for his contributions in the fields of Molecular Systematics and Evolution.
16 Facts About John Barnabas
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John Barnabas was a member of the Science Advisory Committee to the cabinet as well as the Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India.
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John Barnabas continued his researches and secured a PhD from University of Pune in 1956.
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John Barnabas served Ahmednagar College till 1981 during which time he held many positions such as that of a lecturer, a professor and a head of the department.
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In 1983, John Barnabas joined the National Chemical Laboratory as a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow and after the tenure of the fellowship in 1985, he continued at the laboratory as the head of the Division of Biochemical Sciences.
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John Barnabas worked there holding the Distinguished Fellowship of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research from 1991 till his death on 30 July 1994, at the age of 64.
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John Barnabas was known to have done pioneering research on haemoglobins of mammals, with respect to the sequence of amino acids in them, and his studies helped in a wider understanding of the subject.
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John Barnabas proposed novel methods by which the molecular structure is utilized in the measurement of evolutionary distance and the rate of change.
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John Barnabas's methods, based on parsimony analysis, assisted in developing phylogenetic trees and helped to understand the evolutionary history of different eukaryotic lineages.
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John Barnabas contributed in the establishment of the department of biochemistry at Ahmednagar College in 1963, when he returned to the college after his post-doctoral stint abroad.
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John Barnabas served as the councellor of the International Society for the Study of Origin of Life from 1980 to 1983 and sat in the scientific advisory committees to the cabinet as well as the Department of Biotechnology.
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John Barnabas was associated with the research councils of several scientific agencies including the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and the advisory committee for space sciences of the Indian Space Research Organization.
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John Barnabas served as a member of the INSA council from 1984 to 1986.
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John Barnabas was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in 1974.
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John Barnabas received the Sreenivasayya Memorial Award in 1976 and the same year, he was elected by the Indian Academy of Sciences as their fellow.
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John Barnabas was a life member of the Society for Scientific Values, a member of the Guha Research Conference, a founder fellow of the Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science and an elected fellow of the Institute of Chemical Technology and the National Academy of Sciences, India.