Autar Singh Paintal FRS (24 September 1925 – 21 December 2004)[2] was an Indian medical scientist who made pioneering discoveries in the area of neurosciences and respiratory sciences.
His major contribution to the world of science is the development of a single-fiber technique for recording afferent impulses from individual sensory receptors.
[3] His father was born in the small village of Pandori in Amritsar district, but left for Burma in 1903 at 7 years old, moving in with his paternal uncle Sundar Singh there after most of his family in Punjab died in a bubonic plague epidemic.
[3] As a boy, Autar Singh Paintal switched schools often as his parents moved, studying at St. Paul's in Rangoon (now Yangon), followed by St. Peter's in Mandalay, and then Kingswood in Kalaw, before studying at Khalsa High School in Lahore after 1939, being sent there by his parents to live with his aunt in advance of a looming Japanese invasion.
[4] Paintal subsequently was elevated to Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research and he was also the founder president of Society of Scientific Values.