Devadas Devaprabhakara (1932–1978) was an Indian organic chemist and a professor at the department of chemistry of the
Indian Institute of Science
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The institute wa ...
.
He was known for his studies on cyclic allenes and medium-ring dines.
His researches on the reduction, hydroporation and isomerization of them and his synthesis of a number of
cyclic hydrocarbons have assisted in rationalizing the understanding of the substrates.
He published his researches by way of several peer-reviewed articles;
the inline repository of the
Indian Academy of Sciences
The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore was founded by Indian Physicist and Nobel Laureate C. V. Raman, and was registered as a society on 24 April 1934. Inaugurated on 31 July 1934, it began with 65 founding fellows. The first general meet ...
have listed 48 of them.
He was also an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
The
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
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, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, Applied science, applied or Fundamenta ...
, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1976, for his contributions to chemical sciences.
He died on 12 January 1978, at the age of 45.
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Cyclic hydrocarbons
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Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Science
1932 births
1978 deaths
Indian scientific authors
Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
Indian organic chemists
Indian Institute of Science faculty