Sciences in 1972, Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 1981 and Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine of London in 1983. He was the Founder Secretary of the Neurological Society of India. He was awarded the Raja-Lakshmi Award in the year 1987 by Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation Chennai. He trained many eminent neurosurgeons including Dr. Raja, who is now known as the father of the Neurosurgery department at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. Dr. Ramamurthi has been himself associated with the Neurosurgery department at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, having first visited the hospital briefly in 1979 and persuaded his student Dr. Raja to join the Neurosurgery department there, and also having inaugurated the use of advanced medical equipment there in 1991. Legacy The Ramamurthi Neurosciences Museum in Chennai is named after him. His autobiography "Uphill all the way" (Tamil translation - "thadaigal pala thandi") was released by the Chief Minister Karunanidhi in January 2000. References 1922 births 2003 deaths Indian neurosurgeons Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in medicine People from Mayiladuthurai district Madras Medical College alumni Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine 20th-century Indian medical doctors Medical doctors from Tamil Nadu 20th-century surgeons