T. R. Govindachari Indian Chemist
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| Birthday |
30th July, 1915
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| Birthplace |
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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| Died |
28th December, 2001
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| Place of Death |
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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| Zodiac Sign |
Leo
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| Nationality |
Indian
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| Occupation |
Chemist
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Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari (1915–2001), popularly known as TRG, was an Indian natural product chemist, academic, institution builder and the principal of Presidency College, Chennai. He was known for his studies on the synthesis of isoquinolines and phenanthridines and his contributions in elucidating the structure of several plant constituents. He was an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy and was the nominator of Robert Burns Woodward who won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 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 1960, for his contributions to chemical sciences, making him the first recipient of the award in the chemical sciences category.
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