death_date birth_place awards nationality ethnicity fields workplaces name birth_date article_title citizenship alma_mater
02 april 2007 lahore , british india padma shri indian hindu neurophysiology lady medical sciences hardinge medical college , all india institute of b. k. anand 18 september 1917 b. k. anand
 india king george medical college , lucknow
b. k. anand

professor bal krishan anand -lrb- 1917 -- 2007 -rrb- , better known as b. k. anand , was a famous indian physiologist and pharmacologist .
he was credited for the discovery of feeding center in hypothalamus in 1951 .
he is considered as the founder of modern neurophysiology in india .
he was born in lahore as bal krishan anand in 1917 .
he was graduated from king george medical college in 1940 and obtained m.d. degree in 1948 .
he has joined in 1949 in lady hardinge medical college as professor of physiology .
he went to yale university as fellow of the rockefeller foundation in 1950 and worked with professor john r brobeck .
they had published their classic research work in 1951 .
he has returned to india in 1952 and continued his research in lady hardinge medical college .
he has joined the all india institute of medical sciences as its first professor in the department of physiology in 1956 .
he was instrumental in establishing the guidelines of education for m.b. , b.s. and postgraduate students .
he became dean of that institute .
he was instrumental in the establishment of sher-i-kashmir institute of medical sciences in 1982 .
