Devadas Devaprabhakara

{{Short description|Indian organic chemist and a professor}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|11|13|df=yes}}

| birth_place = India

| death_date = {{death date|1978|1|12|df=yes}}

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| nationality = Indian

| fields = {{ublist | Organic chemistry }}

| workplaces = {{ublist | Indian Institute of Science }}

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| known_for = Studies on cyclic allenes and medium-ring dines

| awards = {{ublist | 1976 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize }}

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Devadas Devaprabhakara (13 November 1932 – 12 January 1978) was an Indian organic chemist and a professor at the department of chemistry of the Indian Institute of Science.{{Cite web |url=http://moorthy.co.in/a-regio-and-stereo-specific-addition-of-iodine-azide-to-c-9-and-c-13-cyclic-allenes.html |title=A Regio-and Stereo-Specific Addition of Iodine Azide to C-9 and C-13 Cyclic Allenes |date=2016 |publisher=Sr. S. N. Moorthy |access-date=1 December 2016 |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420122748/https://moorthy.co.in/a-regio-and-stereo-specific-addition-of-iodine-azide-to-c-9-and-c-13-cyclic-allenes.html |url-status=dead }} He was known for his studies on cyclic allenes and medium-ring dines.{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=254 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=November 12, 2016}} His researches on the reduction, hydroporation and isomerization of them and his synthesis of a number of cyclic hydrocarbons have assisted in rationalizing the understanding of the substrates.{{Cite web |url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners |date=2016 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |access-date=1 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }} He published his researches by way of several peer-reviewed articles;{{Cite web |url=http://www.sciencecentral.in/index.php/browse/index/all?sortOrderId=&recordsPage=1612 |title=Records |date=2016 |publisher=Science Central |access-date=1 December 2016 |archive-date=1 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201212606/http://www.sciencecentral.in/index.php/browse/index/all?sortOrderId=&recordsPage=1612 |url-status=dead }} the inline repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences have listed 48 of them.{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Ramakrishnan=3ASubramaniam=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}} He was also an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Ramakrishnan,_Prof._Subramaniam |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=November 12, 2016}} 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 1976, for his contributions to chemical sciences.{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=November 12, 2016}} He died on 12 January 1978, at the age of 45.