Modern figure
Ram Nath Chopra
ਰਾਮ ਨਾਥ ਚੋਪੜਾرام ناتھ چوپڑا
Doctor from Gujranwala called the father of Indian pharmacology, who tested the old herbal medicines of India in the laboratory.
Ram Nath Chopra was born in Gujranwala, studied medicine at Cambridge and joined the Indian Medical Service. At the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine he set up the first department of pharmacology in India and spent decades testing the plants of Ayurveda and Unani medicine, to find which really worked.
His book Indigenous Drugs of India remained the standard work for half a century.