Narayanan Chandrakumar

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|11|25|df=y}}

| birth_place = Tamil Nadu, India

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| nationality = Indian

| fields = {{ublist | Chemical physics | Nuclear magnetic resonance }}

| workplaces = {{ublist | IIT Madras | JEOL | National Institutes of Health | University of Siegen | University of Göttingen | University of Ulm | INSERM, Grenoble }}

| alma_mater = {{ublist | Loyola College, Chennai | IIT Madras | IIT Kanpur | Central Leather Research Institute }}

| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist| P. T. Narasimhan }}

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| known_for = Studies on rotating frame coherence transfer and Nuclear magnetic resonance

| awards = {{ublist | 1985 Bruker Young Scientist Award | 1987 CSIR Young Scientist Award | 1996 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | 1996 CSIR New Idea Fund Award | 2000 ISCA Millennium Medal | 2008 CRSI Silver Medal }}

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Narayanan Chandrakumar (born 25 November 1951) is an Indian chemical physicist and a professor of chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.{{Cite web |url=http://chem.iitm.ac.in/faculty/chandrakumar/ |title=Dr. N. Chandrakumar - Faculty profile |date=2016 |website=IIT Madras}} He was the founder of the first Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) laboratory in India and is known for developing a new technique for NMR imaging and diffusion measurement.{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=421 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}} He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=N97-1211 |title=Indian fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}} and the Indian Academy of Sciences.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Chandrakumar,_Prof._Narayanan |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=12 November 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 1996, 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=12 November 2016}}

Biography

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N. Chandrakumar, born on 25 November 1951, in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, graduated in chemistry from Loyola College, Chennai in 1970 and completed his master's degree at IIT Madras in 1972. His doctoral studies were at IIT Kanpur under the guidance of P. T. Narasimhan, a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, which he completed in 1979 and joined Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) as a research associate in 1980. He served the institute till 2001, holding positions such as that of a scientist, head of the Physical Sciences Division and a director-grade scientist and moved to IIT Madras where he is a professor at the department of chemistry. In between, he served as visiting scientist at JEOL, National Institutes of Health (1986), and at University of Siegen (1993). He also had visiting professorships at University of Ulm (1997–98) and INSERM, Grenoble (2001).

Legacy

Chandrakumar is credited with the establishment of the first NMR laboratory in India which he accomplished during his early years at Central Leather Research Institute; later he would set up MRS and MRI facilities at IIT Madras. He is the inventor of the new NMR imaging technique for diffusion measurements and has done studies on rotating frame coherence transfer and multiple quantum NMR, high resolution spin-1 NMR and spin-1 connectivity mapping.{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=5 October 2016 | pages=34 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }} He holds seven patents for the processes he has developed.{{Cite web |url=http://chem.iitm.ac.in/faculty/chandrakumar/?page_id=361 |title=Inventions and Patents |date=2016 |publisher=IIT Madras}} His researches have been detailed in two monographs, Modern techniques in high-resolution FT-NMR{{cite book|author1=Narayanan Chandrakumar|author2=Sankaran Subramanian|title=Modern techniques in high-resolution FT-NMR|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7KjvAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=978-0-387-96327-3}} and Spin-1 NMR{{cite book|author=N. Chandrakumar|title=Spin-1 NMR|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gVHmCAAAQBAJ|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-61089-9}} and several articles published in peer-reviewed journals.{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Chandrakumar=3ANarayanan=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}} ResearchGate, an online article repository, has listed 85 of them.{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/N_Chandrakumar |title=N. Chandrakumar on ResearchGate |date=2016 }} He has also edited the journals Magnetic Resonance, Diamond Jubilee Special Issue of the Proceedings (Chemical Sciences) of the Indian Academy of Sciences.{{Cite web |url=http://chem.iitm.ac.in/faculty/chandrakumar/?page_id=363 |title=Books |date=2016 |publisher=IIT Madras}} He has also supervised several doctoral scholars in their studies.

Awards and honors

Chadrakumar received the Bruker Young Scientist Award in 1985. Two years later, he received the Young Scientist Award of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in its first issue in 1987. CSIR honored him again in 1996 with the New Idea Fund Award and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1996.{{cite web | url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | title=Chemical Sciences | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=2016 | access-date=7 November 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912012851/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | archive-date=12 September 2012 }} He was awarded the Millennium Medal by the Indian Science Congress Association in 2000 and the Chemical Research Society of India awarded him the Silver Medal in 2008.{{Cite web |url=http://www.crsi.org.in/index.php/crsi-awards/year-1999-2008 |title=Awards: Year - 2008 |date=2016 |publisher=Chemical Research Society of India |access-date=26 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016123938/http://www.crsi.org.in/index.php/crsi-awards/year-1999-2008 |archive-date=16 October 2016 |url-status=dead }} The award orations he has delivered include Professor R. K. Asundi Memorial Lecture (2002), the Professor K. Rangadhama Rao Memorial Lecture (2004) of the Indian National Science Academy and the Professor N. Venkatasubramanian Endowment Lecture (2003).{{Cite web |url=http://chem.iitm.ac.in/faculty/chandrakumar/?page_id=72 |title=Awards and honors |date=2016 |publisher=IIT Madras}} The Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as their fellow in 1993 and he became a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 1997. He also held the INSA-DFG Exchange Fellowship in 1988, Fellowship of the Max Planck Gesellschaft in 1989 and, 1990, INSA Visiting Fellowship for MRI / MRS Research at AIIMS in 1994, Honorary Senior Fellowship of the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research in 1997 and the J. C. Bose National Fellowship in 2009.

Narayanan Chandrakumar

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