Sukh Dev

Biography Sukh Dev was born on 17 June 1923 He graduated with honours from Dayanand Anglo Vedic College, Lahore of the Punjab University in 1943 and secured his master's degree (MSc) from the same institution in 1945.

Legacy Sukh Dev conducted research on terpenoids and contributed to the structural elucidation of a number of them. It was during these investigations that he discovered new skeletal types in Sesqui- and diterpenoids. He also mentored 92 research scholars, which included many notable scientists.

Awards and honours Sukh Dev received the Sudborough Medal of the Indian Institute of Science in 1949 when he was working at the institution as a research associate The American Chemical Society awarded him the Ernest Guenther Award in 1980 and he was selected for the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Science, the VASVIK Industrial Research Award, and the FICCI Award of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry the same year. He received two awards from the Indian National Science Academy in the 1980s, Professor T. R. Seshadri Seventieth Birthday Commemoration Medal in 1981 and Meghnad Saha Medal in 1987. and the Srinivasan Ramanujan Birth Centenary Award of the Indian Science Congress Association in 1992. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by two Indian chemical societies, the Indian Chemical Society in 1999 and the Chemical Research Society of India in 2000.