Background
Darshan Ranganathan was born on June 4, 1941 to Vidyavati Markan and Shanti Swarup.
Darshan Ranganathan was born on June 4, 1941 to Vidyavati Markan and Shanti Swarup.
She was educated in Delhi and received a Doctor of Philosophy in chemistry from Delhi University in 1967.
First hired as a lecturer, she became head of the Chemistry Department at Miranda College, Delhi, and went on to receive an 1851 Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, to enable her to conduct postdoctoral work at Imperial College London with Professor Doctorate.H.R. Barton. In 1970, she began research at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT Kanpur). She continued her research at IIT Kanpur on the basis of fellowships.
She began work at Regional Research Laboratory, Trivandrum in 1993, and at IICT, Hyderabad in 1998., where she became Deputy Director.
During these years, she conducted ongoing collaborations with Isabella Karle at the United States. Naval Research Laboratory. Darshan Ranganathan was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997, and died on her 60th birthday, in 2001.