# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ram-nath-chopra
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:19:08.144Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/ram-nath-chopra"
name: "Ram Nath Chopra"
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description: "Sir Ram Nath Chopra CIE, IMS was an Indian Medical Service officer and a doyen of science and medicine of India. He is considered the \"Father of Indian Pharmacology\" for his work on pharmaceuticals and his quest for self-sufficiency of India in drugs through the experimental evaluation of indigenous and traditional drugs. After service in the army, he established a research laboratory where he worked as a professor of Pharmacology at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine which was established in 1921. He also served as the director of this institute from the year 1935 to 1941."
tagline: "Indian pharmacologist"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1882"
deathDate: "1973-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump