Abstract
I was the first, among Govindjee’s graduate students, to finish a PhD under his supervision. Since I finished my PhD (in Biophysics in 1969), we have been friends, and research collaborators. Even now, after more than 40 years, we continue to exchange ideas and publish together. Two accounts have summarized Govindjee’s career. The first [Eaton-Rye, JJ (2007) Photosynth Res 93: 1–5] celebrated Govindjee’s 50 years in photosynthesis with a short article, and the second [Eaton-Rye, JJ (2007) Photosynth Res 94: 153–178] provided snapshots of the Govindjee’s lab from the late 1960s to the late 1990s and beyond. Here, I present Govindjee’s research contributions from 1955, when he published his first research paper in India, till 1969 when I graduated, and the famous Rabinowitch and Govindjee book on Photosynthesis (John Wiley) was published.