Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju
| Gautam R Desiraju | |
|---|---|
| Born |
21 August 1952 Madras, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Residence | India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Fields | Chemistry, X-ray crystallography |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Science |
| Alma mater | University of Bombay, University of Illinois |
| Known for | Crystal engineering, Hydrogen bonding |
Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju is an Indian chemist who has contributed substantially to the themes of crystal engineering and weak hydrogen bonding. He has authored books on these subjects. He has co-authored a textbook in crystal engineering (2011). He is one of the most highly cited Indian scientists and has been recognised by awards such as the Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis and the TWAS Prize in Chemistry. He served as President of the International Union of Crystallography for the triennium 2011–2014.
Gautam Desiraju was born 21 August 1952 in Madras, India. He had his schooling in Cathedral and John Connon Boys School in Bombay and obtained his B.Sc. (1972) from St. Xavier's College, Bombay. He obtained his Ph.D. (1976) from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he worked under the supervision of David Y. Curtin and Iain C. Paul. He worked between 1976 and 1978 in the Research Laboratories of Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY. From 1978 to 1979 he was a research fellow in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He joined the University of Hyderabad in 1979 as a lecturer and was promoted as reader in 1984 and professor in 1990. He spent a year (1988–1989) in the CR&D department of DuPont in Wilmington as a visiting scientist. After 30 years in the University of Hyderabad, he joined the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 2009. He is a member of the editorial advisory boards of Angewandte Chemie, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Communications. He is the immediate past president of the International Union of Crystallography[1]. He was the chair of the first Gordon Research Conference in Crystal Engineering, which was held in 2010. He is a recipient of an honorary doctorate degree of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. He is organizing, with a Local Organizing Committee, the 24th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography [2] in Hyderabad in August 2017.
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