Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam

Singaporean pathologist

Date of Birth: 02-Apr-1921

Place of Birth: Singapore

Date of Death: 28-Jul-2018

Profession: university teacher, pathologist

Nationality: Singapore

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam (2 April 1921 – 28 July 2018) was a renowned Singaporean pathologist.
Hailed as Singapore's "father of pathology" and best known for establishing the Singapore Cancer Registry (SCR) in 1967, Shanmugaratnam was also a world-leading expert on nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
He died on 28 July 2018, aged 97, at his home in Singapore.Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, the chief health scientist and executive director at the Ministry of Health's Office for Healthcare Transformation described Shanmugaratnam as "the pathologist to send the difficult cases which no one else could diagnose to" and "a very humble man and had a brilliant mind but always kind and gentle." He was the father of Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam.