Adusumilli Srikrishna

Adusumilli Srikrishna (1955–2013) was an Indian organic chemist and a professor at the department of organic chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science. He was known for his researches on radical cyclisation and natural products synthesis. He was an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences, India and the Indian Academy of Sciences. 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 1997, for his contributions to chemical sciences.

Biography

A. Srikrishna was born on the New Year's Day of 1955, in Gudivada, a small town in Krishna district of the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. He did his graduate studies at the ANR College of Nagarjuna University in 1973 and completed a master's degree from Andhra University in 1975. His contributions are reported in the racemic and enantiomeric synthesis of natural products and development of new reagents used in selective organic transformations. ResearchGate, an online article repository has listed 379 of them. He sat on the editorial boards of the Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy during 2002–05 and the Indian Journal of Chemistry, Section B in 2002 and guided 23 doctoral scholars in their studies. and the Dr. S. Husain Zaheer Young Scientist Award of Zaheer Science Foundation in 1993. and the Indian Chemical Society awarded him the Professor R. D. Desai 80th Birthday Commemoration Award in 1996. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1997. He was an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies, viz. the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy (2002). A. B. Kulkarni Endowment Lecture of Bombay University (1998), Professor S. Swaminathan Endowment Award of the University of Madras (2002–03), Acharya J. C. Ghosh Memorial Lecture of the Indian Chemical Society (2008) are some of the notable award orations delivered by Srikrishna.