Swaminathan Sivaram

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Swaminathan Sivaram
FICCI Award
Om Prakash Bhasin Award
Goyal Prize
Distinguished Material Scientist of the Year Award
Professor M. Santappa Silver Jubilee Award
VASVIK Award
IICE R. A. Mashelkar Medal
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Swaminathan Sivaram (born 4 November 1946) is an Indian

olefin polymerization[2] and holds the highest number of US patents by an Indian working outside the US.[3] He is a fellow of several significant professional organizations. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2006, for his contributions to Indian science.[4]

Biography

National Chemical Laboratory.

Sivaram was born in the south Indian state of

Baroda as a research scientist where he worked in various capacities such as research manager and deputy general manager till 1988, when he moved to the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) as the Head of the Department of Polymer Chemistry. In 2002, he was promoted as the director of the institution and worked there till his superannuation in 2010.[5]

Sivaram has served as visiting faculty at many universities in India and abroad.

Universite Bordeaux in September – October 1995 as the visiting professor. He was also a guest lecturer at the Free University of Berlin in May 1999 and the Harold A. Morton Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Akron in 2006.[5]

Sivaram has been involved with the Government of India and its various autonomous bodies and is a former member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet (SAC-C).

Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune and the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. He has served as the faculty selection committee of the Indian Institute of Technology for their Mumbai, Kanpur, Chennai and Hyderabad institutes and is a member of the Scientific Council for Catalysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.[5]

Legacy

IISER Pune
, New campus

During his US days, Sivaram was associated with

Living anionic polymerization.[8] He has also edited two books, Polymer Science, (2 Volumes)[9][10] and Macromolecular Symposia, Volume 240.[11] Some of his articles have also been compiled as a book, Chemical vapor deposition: thermal and plasma deposition of electronic materials.[12] He is the holder of approximately 100 patents of which 50 are approved in the US.[2][13][14] He is known to be the holder of the highest number of US patents by an Indian-based outside the US[3] and many of his inventions have been put to commercial use in India and abroad. He has also guided 36 students in their doctoral researches.[2]

Sivaram's efforts are known in the establishment of the first R&D centre on petrochemical research in India at NCL and transforming the organization into a centre for interdisciplinary research.

IISER Pune, in 2006.[2] He is the founder chairman Venture Center (Entrepreneurship Development Center), a not-for-profit initiative by the National Chemical Laboratory for promoting technology and knowledge-based enterprises for India, and sits on its board of directors.[15]

Awards and honours

The President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presenting Padma Shri to Dr. Swaminathan Sivaram, a polymer chemist, at an Investiture Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on March 29, 2006

Sivaram, a Bhatnagar Fellow of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, is also an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India, The World Academy of Sciences, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Indian National Academy of Engineering.[16][A]

In 1987, Sivaram received the

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, his alma mater, awarded him the 1998 Distinguished Alumnus Award.[25] He received the Silver Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India in 2002, followed by the Chemcon R. A. Mashelkar Medal of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2003,[26] the same year as he received the Vishwakarma Medal of the Indian National Science Academy.[17]

The Government of India included him in the 2006

Republic Day Honours list for the civilian award of the Padma Shri[4] and in 2010, Kurukshetra University awarded him the Goyal Prize for Applied Sciences for the year 2007.[27][28] The same year, he received the Material Scientist of the Year Award of the Materials Research Society of India. He is also a recipient of the Millennium Medal of the Indian Science Congress Association and the K. G. Naik Gold Medal of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.[29]

Selected articles

Orations and conferences

Sivaram has delivered several award lectures and orations; AVRA Research Foundation Award Lecture, B. D. Amin Memorial Lecture of Chemical Council, Mumbai, Dr. K.T. Achaya Memorial Lecture of

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, N. R. Kamath Memorial Lecture of Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai and Professor Kaushal Kishore Memorial Lecture of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore are some of the notable ones.[5] He has been an invited speaker at the meetings of the American Chemical Society in 1985, 92 and 94, International Conferences on Ionic Polymerization (IUPAC) of 1995, 97, 99, 2001 and 2005, World Polymer Congress in 2000, Europolymer Congress in 2001, and the Polycondensation conferences of 1997, 2002 and 2004.[5] He has also delivered keynote addresses at World Polymer Congress in 2004, 2006 and 2011, International Symposium on Materials for Advanced Technologies at Singapore in 2005 and the Indian-China-Singapore Trilateral Symposium on Advances in Nanosciences at Singapore in 2010.[5]

Sivaram was associated with the International Conferences on Ionic Polymerization (IUPAC) for several of their conferences such as World Polymer Congress in 2000, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011 and 2012 as a member of the International Organizing Committee. He was the chairman of the International symposium on Ionic Polymerization, India in 2005 and was involved in the organization of the Polymers in the Third Millennium of the

Kracow, Poland in 2009, International Symposium "Polycondensation 2010" at Rolduce Abbey, The Netherlands and the 2nd Polymer Congress of the Federation of Asian Polymers Societies at Beijing in 2011.[5]

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ Sivaram, a Bhatnagar Fellow of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),[17] was elected as the Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences[18] and the National Academy of Sciences, India in 1992.[19] The Indian National Science Academy elected him as their Fellow in 1998.[2] He was selected for the J. C. Bose Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology in 2007, the tenancy holding till 2011.[20] He is also a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering,[21] The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)[17][22] and a recipient of the degree of the Doctor of Science (Honoris causa) from the Purdue University in 2010.[3]

Citations

  1. ^ "Previous Directors". National Chemical Laboratory. 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Indian Fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2015. Archived from the original on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d "Dr. Swaminathan Sivaram receives honorary doctorate degree". Purdue University. 28 April 2010. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "DPEMOU profile" (PDF). Department of Public Enterprises (MoU Division). 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Summary of Achievements" (PDF). Science and Engineering Research Board. 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  7. ^ "Swaminathan Sivaram National Chemical Laboratory". 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
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  9. ISBN 9780074603925
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  11. ISBN 9783527317479
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  12. ISBN 9780442010799
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  13. ^ "Patents by Inventor Swaminathan Sivaram". Justia Patents. 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  14. ^ "Bloomberg profile". Bloomberg. 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2018. [dead link]
  15. ^ "Board of Directors". Venture Center. 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  16. ^ "Swaminathan Sivaram – Current Science" (PDF). Current Science. 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  17. ^ a b c d "CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  18. ^ "IAS Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  19. ^ "NASI Fellow". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2015. Archived from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  20. ^ "Dr. S. Sivaram – IPI". Indian Plastics Institute. 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  21. ^ "Search Of Fellows". Indian National Academy of Engineering. 2015. Archived from the original on 9 November 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  22. ^ "Venture Center profile". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  23. ^ "VASVIK Industrial Research Award". Vasvik. 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  24. ^ "Om Prakash Bhasin awards". Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  25. ^ "Distinguished Alumnus Award – 1998". Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. 2015. Archived from the original on 11 December 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  26. ^ "R A Mashelkar Medal". Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. 2015. Archived from the original on 11 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  27. ^ "Sivaram awarded Goyal Prize". Times of India. 9 July 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  28. ^ "Dr. S. Sivaram awarded the Goyal Prize for 2007 in Applied Sciences" (PDF). Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. 21 June 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  29. ^ "Dr. S. Sivaram is currently Bhatnagar Fellow" (PDF). Exciting Science. 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.

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