Krishnasami Venkataraman
Krishnaswami Venkataraman FNA,
FASc,
FNASc,
FRSC (7 June 1901 – 12 May 1981), popularly known as
KV, was an Indian organic chemist and the first Indian director at
National Chemical Laboratory (NCL Pune) and
University Department of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (UDCT). He was known for the demonstration of an organic chemical reaction involving 2-acetoxyacetophenones which later came to be known as the
Baker–Venkataraman rearrangement and for his contributions in developing NCL into one of the leading research centres in organic chemistry. He was an elected fellow of several science academies which included the
Royal Society of Chemistry,
Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,
USSR Academy of Sciences,
Prussian Academy of Sciences,
Polish Academy of Sciences,
Indian Academy of Sciences, and the
Indian National Science Academy. The
Government of India awarded him the
Padma Bhushan, the third highest Indian civilian award, in 1961.
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