Coluthur Gopalan
Indian nutritionist (1918–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Coluthur Gopalan FRCP, FRS,[1] FAMS, FASc (29 November 1918 – 3 October 2019)[2] was an Indian nutritionist. He was responsible for initiating nutrition research in independent India, leading to a number of interventions such as the Integrated Child Development Services, the midday meal scheme for school children, goiter prevention programme, etc.[3] The burning feet syndrome is also known as Grierson-Gopalan syndrome. While the condition was described in 1826 by a British medical officer James Grierson, Gopalan also described this condition in 1946 when he observed it, "chiefly in females between the ages of 20 and 40 years, among the poor in South India".[4]