Narayanan Chandrakumar

Narayanan Chandrakumar
Born (1951-11-25) 25 November 1951 (age 72)
Tamil Nadu, India
NationalityIndian
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Known forStudies on rotating frame coherence transfer and Nuclear magnetic resonance
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Narayanan Chandrakumar (born 1951) is an Indian chemical physicist and a professor of chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.[1] He was the founder of the first Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) laboratory in India and is known for developing a new technique for NMR imaging and diffusion measurement.[2] He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy[3] and the Indian Academy of Sciences.[4] 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 1996, for his contributions to chemical sciences.[5]

  1. ^ "Dr. N. Chandrakumar - Faculty profile". IIT Madras. 2016.
  2. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  3. ^ "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2016.
  4. ^ "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  5. ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.