Krishna N. Ganesh

Krishna N. Ganesh (born 1953) is an Indian chemist. Currently he is director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.^[1] He did his MSc from the Bangalore University and then moved to Delhi University to obtain his PhD. After obtaining his PhD from Delhi in 1977, Ganesh moved to Cambridge University to obtain one more PhD. He completed his second PhD within three years and then came back to India and in 1981 joined the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad. He worked as a scientist in the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune from 1987 to 2006 after which he held directorship at IISER Pune.

Awards

K. N. Ganesh has received a number of scientific recognitions including:

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Chemical Sciences (1998)
Millennium Medal of Indian Science Congress (2000)
Silver medal of Chemical Research Society of India (2004)
TWAS Prize in Chemical Sciences (2006).

He is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in Bangalore, the Indian National Science Academy in New Delhi, the National Academy of Sciences in Allahabad, a The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and a recipient of the JC Bose National Fellowship at the Department of Science & Technology in New Delhi

He is son-in-law of Bharat Ratna C. N. R. Rao ^[2]

References

Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Chemical Science

Recipients	T. R. Govindachari (1960) Asima Chatterjee (1961) S. C. Bhattacharyya (1962) B. D. Tilak (1963) Sukh Dev (1964) Sadhan Basu & R. C. Mehrotra (1965) N. A. Ramaiah (1966) Santappa (1967) C. N. R. Rao (1968) A. C. Jain (1969) P. T. Narasimhan (1970) M. M. Dhar (1971) S. V. Kessar & A. P. B. Sinha (1972) M. V. George & H. B. Mathur (1973) U. R. Ghatak & K. Nagarajan (1974) D. S. Bhakuni & Animesh Chakravorty (1975) Devadas Devaprabhakara (1976) Mihir Chowdhury & S. Ranganathan (1977) Girjesh Govil & Goverdhan Mehta (1978) D. Balasubramanian & B. M. Deb (1981) C. L. Khetrapal & G. S. R. Subba Rao (1982) Samaresh Mitra & Naba Kishore Ray (1983) Paramasivan Natarajan & K. J. Rao (1984) P. Balaram (1986) Debashis Mukherjee (1987) Kaushal Kishore (1988) Srinivasan Chandrasekaran & M. K. Chaudhuri (1989) B. M. Choudary & N. Sathyamurthy (1990) Biman Bagchi & J. S. Yadav (1991) Sumit Bhaduri & Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha (1992) S. R. Gadre & T. Ramasami (1993) E. D. Jemmis & D. D. Sarma (1994) Jayaraman Chandrasekhar & K. L. Sebastian (1995) Narayanan Chandrakumar & Mariappan Periasamy (1996) Kankan Bhattacharyya & Adusumilli Srikrishna (1997) A. R. Chakravarty & K. N. Ganesh (1998) Sourav Pal (2000) Uday Maitra (2001) Murali Sastry (2002) T. K. Chakraborty (2003) Srinivasan Sampath & K. George Thomas (2006) Amalendu Chandra & A. Ajayghosh (2007) Thalappil Pradeep & Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy (2008) Charusita Chakravarty & Narayanaswamy Jayaraman(2009) Swapan K Pati & Sandeep Verma (2010) Balasubramanian Sundaram & Garikapati Narahari Sastry (2011) Yamuna Krishnan (2013) Kavirayani Ramakrishna Prasad & Souvik Maiti (2014) Pradyut Ghosh & D Srinivasa Reddy (2015)

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