Vishnampet Sivaramakrishnan Vaidhyanathan

He was a scientist and scholar. He was born in Madras South India, came to the United States to pursue his Ph.D. in 1955 at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago IL. In Little Rock he met Virginia Evans whom he married in 1965. They married, despite the miscegenation laws in place at the time. They moved to Buffalo NY where he was a tenured professor at SUNY Buffalo in Biophysics and Physiology for 35 years. After retirement they moved to Miami FL for fifteen years (near their daughters) before moving close to their son and his family in Charlottesville VA.

He was a Diamond Life Master bridge player with over 5,375 master points. He had a heart transplant at the Cleveland Clinic hospital in 1992 and survived on it for almost 27 years. He is survived by his wife Virginia, son Siva, daughter Mehala, daughter Vedana, daughter-in-law Melissa, son-in-law Peter, granddaughter Jaya and many more brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, grand-nephews and grand-nieces.

He died surrounded by his immediate family since COVID-19 kept visitation small. He may have had a small funeral but he was loved by many all around the world and will be greatly missed.