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{{Short description|Indian crystallographer}}
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'''Gopinath Kartha''' (26 January 1927 – 18 June 1984) was a prominent [[Crystallography|crystallographer]] of Indian origin. In 1967, he determined the molecular structure of the enzyme [[ribonuclease]]. This was the first [[protein]] structure elucidated and published in the [[United States]].

==Early life and education==
Gopinath Kartha was born in [[Cherthala]], near [[Alappuzha]] in the state of [[Kerala]], [[India]]. He went to school at Sanathanadharma Vidya Sala in Alappuzha. His undergraduate diploma in Math, Physics, and Chemistry was from [[University College, Thiruvananthapuram]](Trivandrum). He obtained his B.Sc. in Physics in 1950 from the [[University of Madras]], [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]].{{Citation needed|date= April 2022}} He obtained another B.Sc. in Mathematics from [[Andhra University]] in [[Visakhapatnam]] in 1951.{{Citation needed|date= April 2022}}

He began his graduate studies in 1952 at the [[Indian Institute of Science]] in [[Bangalore]] but followed his advisor [[G.N. Ramachandran]] back to the University of Madras. As a graduate student, he and Ramachandran worked on the [[triple helix]] structure of the [[collagen]] molecule.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2001/04/30/stories/13300788.htm|work=[[The Hindu]]|title=Model scientist|date=30 April 2001}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

==Career==

In 1959, he moved to the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute to work with Dr. David Harker and Dr. Jake Bello.
Later that year, the entire Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute's crystallography group moved to [[Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center]] in [[Buffalo, New York]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://journals.iucr.org/j/issues/1984/05/00/a24185/a24185.pdf|title=Crystallographers|publisher=Journal of Applied Crystallography}}</ref> He stayed at Roswell Park until the end of his life. In 1972 he spent eight months as a visiting professor of biophysics at Kyoto University.{{Citation needed|date= April 2022}}

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