Tavarekere_Kalliah_Chandrashekar
Tavarekere Kalliah Chandrashekar
Indian bioinorganic chemist
Tavarekere Kalliah Chandrashekar (born 1956) is an Indian bioinorganic chemist and a former director of the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, a CSIR subsidiary.[1] He was appointed the director of the National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar where he continues as a senior professor at the department of chemical sciences.[2] He is known for the discovery of novel macrocyclic systems[3] and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy,[4] National Academy of Sciences, India[5] and the Indian Academy of Sciences.[6] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2001, for his contributions to chemical sciences.[7]