Shyamala Gopalan

Shyamala Gopalan
Also see: which is an Indian government document that uses the form "G. Shyamala". while Shyamala Gopalan was a form to conform to Western name order. Shyamala Gopalan Harris, as the first, middle and last names, was her legal name in the United States. In some U.S. government documents, she placed her given name in the surname field and her patronymic in the given name field. She worked jobs under her maiden name even after she married.}} (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology. She was the mother of Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris and Maya Harris, a lawyer and political commentator. Provided by Wikipedia