Shyamala Gopalan

Shyamala Gopalan
Also see: which is an Indian government document that uses the form "G. Shyamala". while Shyamala Gopalan conforms 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 McGill University and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene has stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology. She was the mother of Kamala Harris (former attorney general of California and senator who became vice president of the United States) and Maya Harris, a lawyer and political commentator. Provided by Wikipedia