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Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju

Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju (born August 21, 1952) is an Indian chemist who works in the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore He works in the area of structural chemistry and crystal engineering Desiraju has played a major role in the development of crystal engineering for nearly three decades He, among others, has been responsible in recent times for the acceptance of the theme of weak hydrogen bonding in structural and supramolecular chemistry His books on crystal engineering (1989) and on the weak hydrogen bond in structural chemistry and biology (1999) are especially notable He has coauthored a textbook in crystal engineering (2011) He is one of the most highly cited Indian chemists and has been recognised by a number of awards such as the Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis and the TWAS award in Chemistry He was elected President of the International Union of Crystallography for the triennium 20112014
Gautam Desiraju was born 21 August 1952 in Chennai, India, formerly Madras Desiraju obtained his BSc (1972) from St Xaviers College, Bombay and PhD (1976) from University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign where he worked under the supervision of David Y Curtin and Iain C Paul He worked between 1976 and 1978 in the Research Laboratories of Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY From 1978 to 1979 he was a research fellow in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore He joined the University of Hyderabad in 1979 as a lecturer and was promoted as reader in 1984 and professor in 1990 He spent a year (1988


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