K. Venkataraman
K. Venkataraman ( Krishnasamy Venkataraman ; born June 7, 1901 in Madras , † May 12, 1981 in Pune ) was an Indian chemist . He mainly dealt with dyes.
Life
Venkataraman studied at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and went to England, where he received his PhD with Robert Robinson . Back in India, he taught at Forman Christian College in Lahore , at the University of Bombay , where he became a full professor of chemical engineering in 1936. Shortly after the Second World War, he found out about the state of the dye industry in Germany. In 1957 he became director of the National Chemical Laboratory in Poona .
The Baker-Venkataraman rearrangement (synthesis of 1,3-diketone substituted phenol derivatives), a variant of the Allan-Robinson reaction, is named after him and Wilson Baker (1900–2002) .
In 1960 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
In 1961 he was awarded the Padma Bhushan civil order .
Fonts
- as editor
- Chemistry of Synthetic Dyes . Academic Press, 1952 to 1978 (8 volumes)
literature
- Entry K. Venkataraman . In: Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists . Harri Deutsch, Thun 1989, ISBN 3-8171-1055-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of Krishnasami Venkataraman at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 12, 2016.
- ↑ indianetzone.com: 1961 Padma Bhushan Awardees .
Web links
- K. Venkataraman - A Biographical Sketch
- Father of dyestuff research in The Hindu, February 13, 2003
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Venkataraman, K. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Venkataraman, Krishnasamy (with patronymic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madras |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1981 |
| Place of death | Pune |