M. K. Chandrashekaran
Indian zoologist (1937–2009)
M. K. Chandrashekaran | |
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| Born | (1937-09-04)4 September 1937 Salem, Tamil Nadu |
| Died | 2 July 2009(2009-07-02) (aged 71) |
| Nationality (legal) | Indian |
| Awards | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology, chronobiology |
Maroli Krishnayya Chandrashekaran (4 September 1937 – 2 July 2009), also known as Shekar or MKC, was an Indian zoologist, regarded as the founder of Indian chronobiology, the study of biological rhythms of organisms. He was a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and the Third World Academy of Sciences, and in 1979 received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology.[1][2] Born in Salem, Tamil Nadu, Chandrashekaran earned bachelor's and master's degrees in zoology at Presidency College, Chennai, and a PhD at the University of Madras. He served as a distinguished Reader in the School of Biological Sciences of Madurai Kamaraj University.[3] He served as editor of the Journal of Biosciences from 1991 to 1997 and Resonance: Journal of Science Education from 2003 to 2005.[4][5][6]
References
- ^ "Dr Maroli Krishnayya Chandrashekaran". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ Sharma, V. K. (2009). "Maroli Krishnayya Chandrashekaran (1937-2009)". Journal of Biological Rhythms. 24 (6): 443. doi:10.1177/0748730409349141. S2CID 83632257.
- ^ "Indian National Science Academy". Indian National Science Academy. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
- ^ Nanjundiah, Vidyanand (2009). "M K Chandrashekaran (1937–2009)". Journal of Biosciences. 34 (3): 333–341. doi:10.1007/s12038-009-0037-z. PMID 19805892. S2CID 35179125.
- ^ Nanjundiah, Vidyanand (2011). "M K Chandrashekaran (1937–2009)". Resonance. 16 (8): 705–721. doi:10.1007/s12045-011-0079-z.
- ^ Sharma, V. K. (2009). "Maroli Krishnayya Chandrashekaran (1937-2009)". Current Science. 97 (2): 263–264.
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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Biological Science
- Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan (1960)
- M. S. Swaminathan (1961)
- Bimal Kumar Bachhawat (1962)
- Jagannath Ganguly (1963}
- Dilbagh Singh Athwal (1964)
- Chirayathumadom Venkatachalier Subramanian (1965)
- Hari Krishan Jain (1966)
- Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao (1966)
- Arun Kumar Sharma (1967)
- Tathamangalam Ananthanarayanan Venkitasubramanian (1968)
- Madhu Sudan Kanungo (1971)
- Narayana Balakrishnan Nair (1971)
- Birendra Bijoy Biswas (1972)
- Satish Chandra Maheshwari (1972)
- Bhyravabhotla Radhakrishna Murty (1973)
- Sardul Singh Guraya (1973)
- John Barnabas (1974)
- Obaid Siddiqi (1975)
- Archana Sharma (1975)
- Guru Prakash Dutta (1976)
- Kishan Singh (1976)
- Trichnopoly Chelvaraj Anand Kumar (1977)
- V. Sasisekharan (1978)
- Amar Nath Bhaduri (1979)
- M. K. Chandrashekaran (1979)
- Asis Datta (1980)
- Jamuna Sharan Singh (1980)
- Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane (1981)
- Sushil Kumar (1981)
- Sunil Kumar Podder (1982)
- Ramamirtha Jayaraman (1982)
- Govindarajan Padmanabhan (1983)
- Thavamani Jegajothivel Pandian (1984)
- K. R. K. Easwaran (1984)
- Chhitar Mal Gupta (1985)
- M. Vijayan (1985)
- Madhav Gadgil (1986)
- Avadhesha Surolia
- Sudhir Kumar Sopory
- Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya (1988)
- M. R. S. Rao (1988)
- Subhash Chandra Lakhotia (1989)
- Manju Ray (1989)
- Samir K. Brahmachari (1990)
- Virendra Nath Pandey (1991)
- Srinivas Kishanrao (1991)
- Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam (1992)
- Dipankar Chatterji (1992)
- Raghavendra Gadagkar (1993)
- M. R. N. Murthy (1993)
- Ramakrishnan Nagaraj (1994)
- Alok Bhattacharya (1994)
- Seyed E. Hasnain (1995)
- Kalappa Muniyappa (1995)
- Ghanshyam Swarup (1996)
- Vishweshwaraiah Prakash (1996)
- Jayaraman Gowrishankar (1997)
- Kanury Venkata Subba Rao (1997)
- K. VijayRaghavan (1998)
- Debi Prasad Sarkar (1998)
- Siddhartha Roy (1999)
- Valakunja Nagaraja (1999)
- Dinakar Mashnu Salunke (2000)
- Jayant B. Udgaonkar (2000)
- Umesh Varshney (2001)
- Raghavan Varadarajan (2002)
- Amitabha Mukhopadhyay (2002)
- Satyajit Mayor (2003)
- Gopal Chandra Kundu (2004)
- Ramesh Venkata Sonti (2004)
- Tapas Kumar Kundu (2005)
- Shekhar C. Mande (2005)
- Vinod Bhakuni (2006)
- Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale (2006)
- Upinder Singh Bhalla (2007)
- Narayanaswamy Srinivasan (2007)
- Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava (2008)
- L. S. Shashidhara (2008)
- Amitabh Joshi (2009)
- Bhaskar Saha (2009)
- Sanjeev Galande (2010)
- Shubha Tole (2010)
- Amit Prakash Sharma (2011)
- Rajan Sankaranarayanan (2011)
- Shantanu Chowdhury (2012)
- Suman Kumar Dhar (2012)
- Sathees Chukkurumbal Raghavan (2013)
- Roop Mallik (2014)
- Balasubramanian Gopal (2015)
- Rajeev Kumar Varshney (2015)
- Suvendra Nath Bhattacharyya (2016)
- Rishikesh Narayanan (2016)
- Deepak T. Nair (2017)
- Sanjeev Das (2017)
- Ganesh Nagaraju (2018)
- Thomas J. Pucadyil (2018)
- Kayarat Saikrishnan (2019)
- Subhadeep Chatterjee (2020)
- Vatsala Thirumalai (2020)
- Amit Singh (2021)
- Arun Kumar Shukla (2021)
- Ashwani Kumar (2022)
- Maddika Subba Reddy (2022)
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