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Subramania Ranganathan
Born(1934-02-02)2 February 1934
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
  • 2000 R. C. Mehrotra Endowment Gold Medal
  • 2001 CRSI Silver Medal
  • 2006 CRSI Life-time Achievement Award
  • 2014 INSA Best Teacher Award
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    Subramania Ranganathan (1934–2016), popularly known as Ranga,

    Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.[2] He was known for his studies on synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry[3] and was an elected fellow Indian National Science Academy,[4] National Academy of Sciences, India[5] and the Indian Academy of Sciences[6] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1977, for his contributions to chemical sciences.[7]

    Biography

    Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

    Ranganathan, born on 2 February 1934 in the south Indian state of

    Nobel laureate, at Harvard University for his post- doctoral studies and in 1964, he shifted to Woodward Research Institute, Basel to complete the studies in 1964.[4] On his return to India in 1966, he joined IIT Kanpur where he spent his entire official academic career, holding positions of a professor, head of the department and dean, before superannuating in 1994. Post-retirement, he served as an INSA senior scientist, first at National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology and later at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), both the facilities were earlier known as Regional Research Laboratories.[1]

    Ranganathan was holding the position of an honorary position at IICT when he died on 8 January 2016, at the age of 81, survived by his son, Anand. He was married to Darshan Ranganathan, an academic, research associate and his co-author; his wife predeceased him.[1] Anand Ranganathan is a scientist working on drugs for TB and Malaria at International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology.[9]

    Legacy

    During his post-doctoral days, Ranganathan worked closely with Woodward and was known to have assisted the latter in his work on

    prostaglandins, a group of biologically active compounds.[10] His researches have been documented by way of a number of books and over 200 peer-reviewed articles; the online repository of Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 97 of them;[11] and many authors have cited his researches in their publications.[12][13][14]

    Awards and honors

    Ranganathan received the Basudev Banerjee Medal in 1975 and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the

    University Grants Commission of India (1979–80), Science and Engineering Research Board (1991) and Department of Atomic Energy (2001) and delivered several award orations including Professor K. Venkatraman Lecture (1979), Professor A. B. Kulkarni Lecture (1982); Professor N. V. Subba Rao Memorial Lecture (1985), Professor T. R. Seshadri Memorial Lecturer (1993) and Maitreyi Memorial Lecture (1994).[4] The Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as a fellow in 1975[6] and he became an elected fellow of and the Indian National Science Academy and the National Academy of Sciences, India in 1981 and 1991 respectively.[4]

    Books

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    References

    1. ^ a b c d N. Sathyamurthy (December 2014). "S. Ranganathan: an organic chemist and an artist by nature" (PDF). Current Science. 107 (11).
    2. ISBN 978-81-7371-421-4
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    3. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
    4. ^ a b c d "Deceased fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2016.
    5. ^ "NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences India. 2016.
    6. ^ a b "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
    7. ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
    8. ^ a b "Obituary". IIT Kanpur. 2016.
    9. ^ "In The Hindu: Medicines in India, For India". Transititon State. 14 February 2015.
    10. ^ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016.
    11. ^ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016.
    12. ISBN 978-0-470-18841-5
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    13. ISBN 978-1-4757-1821-8
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    14. ISBN 978-1-4832-9092-8
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    15. ^ "Chemical Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
    16. ^ "Awards: Year - 2001". Chemical Research Society of India. 2016.
    17. ^ "Lifetime achievement awards (CRSI Gold Medal)". Chemical Research Society of India. 2016.
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