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Gautam R. Desiraju
Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju (born 21 August 1952) is an Indian Structural chemistry, structural chemist and educationist, and an emeritus professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He has worked on crystal engineering and weak hydrogen bonding, publishing seminal texts in 1989 and 1999. He also co-authored a textbook on crystal engineering in 2011. With more than 65,000 citations and an h-index of 104, he is the second most highly cited scientist in India. In 2022, he authored "Bharat: India 2.0", in which he argues that the present constitution is inadequate for a 5,000-year-old civilization. Biography Gautam Desiraju was born in Chennai, Chennai, India. He completed his schooling at Cathedral and John Connon Boys School in Bombay and obtained his BSc in 1972 from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. Under the guidance of David Y. Curtin and Iain C. Paul, he earned his PhD in 1976 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He worked between 1976 and 1978 in the Res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madras
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. According to the 2011 Indian census, Chennai is the sixth-most populous city in the country and forms the fourth-most populous urban agglomeration. The Greater Chennai Corporation is the civic body responsible for the city; it is the oldest city corporation of India, established in 1688—the second oldest in the world after London. The city of Chennai is coterminous with Chennai district, which together with the adjoining suburbs constitutes the Chennai Metropolitan Area, the List of urban areas by population, 36th-largest urban area in the world by population and one of the largest metropolitan economies of India. The traditional and de facto gateway of South India, Chennai is among the most-visited Indian cities by f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
