As Professor DZNeP mouse Govindjee would say, Let There be Light… Let There be Greenness… Let There be Water… Let There be Carbon-di-oxide… And (by WAC1) Let There be Quantum Mechanical Rules for Electron and Proton Transfer, and, of course, Orderly Membrane Protein Assembly… And, More! And, you will have Oxygen to breathe with… And, of course, Food to eat! With Kind Regards, The Govindjee family (Submitted AZD5582 order by Anita, Govindjee’ s daughter; see Fig. 1 for pictures of the family.) Fig. 1 2013 photographs of Govindjee and his family. Top Left: A photograph of Govindjee with his wife Rajni; Top Right: Govindjee (in the middle) with his daughter Anita
Govindjee, and his son Sanjay Govindjee (http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~sanjay/). Bottom: Left to right: Sanjay, Rajni, Marilyn Govindjee, Govindjee, Sunita Christiansen, Rajiv Govindjee, Arjun Govindjee, Anita Govindjee-Christiansen, and Morten Christiansen (http://psych.cornell.edu/people/morten-christiansen). Sunita is Anita and Morten’s daughter; and Arjun and Rajiv are Sanjay and Marilyn’s sons Govindjee: Who is he? For those who don’t know Govindjee,
I provide here a brief biography. For details, see Eaton-Rye 2007a, b. Govindjee was born on October 24, 1932, at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, to Mr. Vishveshwar Prasad Asthana and Mrs. Savitri Devi Asthana. However, somehow, official records had listed his date of birth find more as October 24, 1933. Thus, we are celebrating his 80th birthday in 2013. Further, Govindjee, who uses one name only, did have a family name.
In fact, he was Govindji Asthana; not only his last name was dropped, he even changed the spelling of his first name to Govindjee, and, further, it is now used as his last name. Thus, what has happened now is that he is often listed as FNU Govindjee (where FNU stands for First Name Unknown) because computers need all fields filled! Since he uses one name only and computers need 2 names, he has been listed by various names including: Mister Govindjee, Illini Govindjee, and Govindjee Govindjee. His family has no problem: his wife is Rajni Govindjee (retired senior biophysicist from the mafosfamide University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); his daughter is Anita Govindjee (working for IBM; her husband Morten Christiansen is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University); and his son is Sanjay Govindjee (Professor at University of California Berkeley; his wife Marilyn Govindjee teaches Spanish in California). Govindjee has 3 grandchildren (Sunita Christiansen; Arjun Govindjee; and Rajiv Govindjee). Figure 1 shows a 2013 photograph of Govindjee and his immediate family during a 2013 family reunion in the Lake Tahoe area in California.