Srinivasan Varadarajan Explained

Srinivasan Varadarajan
Birth Date:1928 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Tamil Nadu, India
Occupation:Chemist
Corporate executive
Civil servant
Awards:Padma Bhushan

Srinivasan Varadarajan (31 March 1928 – 11 May 2022) was an Indian chemist, civil servant, corporate executive and the former chairman of several public sector undertakings such as Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (IPCL), Petrofils Cooperative Limited, Engineers India Limited (EIL), and Bridge and Roof Company (India).[1]

Education

Varadarajan hails from Tamil Nadu. He obtained two master's degrees (MA and MSc) from Madras University and Andhra University and two doctoral degrees (Ph.D.) from University of Delhi and University of Cambridge. He worked as a faculty member at several educational institutions such as Delhi University (1949–53), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1956-57) and Department of Radiotherapeutics and University of Cambridge (1957–59).

Awards

The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan in 1985 for his contributions to society.[2]

He was an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (1983), Indian Academy of Sciences (1972)[3] and The World Academy of Sciences (1997).[4]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Indian Fellow . Indian National Science Academy . 2016 . 2 May 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160813061557/http://www.insaindia.org.in/detail.php?id=N83-0861 . 13 August 2016 .
  2. Web site: Padma Awards . Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India . 2016 . 3 January 2016.
  3. Web site: 2016 . IAS Fellow . 2 May 2016 . Indian Academy of Sciences.
  4. Web site: 2016 . TWAS Fellow . 2 May 2016 . The World Academy of Sciences.