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L K Doraiswamy,former director,National Chemical Laboratory (NCL),Pune passed away on June 2 in Iowa,USA. Doraiswamy was the Anson Marston Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University.
After obtaining a B.Sc. in chemistry from the University of Madras,Chennai,Doraiswamy had joined NCL in 1954 and went on to become the first non-chemist director at NCL in 1978.
Doraiswamy firmly placed Chemical Engineering research at CSIR-NCL on the world map. His work encompassed the highly theoretical and the extremely practical benefiting the emerging Indian chemical industry, an NCL press note said. He has bagged the Padma Bhushan,S H Zaheer Medal of Indian National Science Academy,FICCI Award of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry,Herdillia Prize of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers,Homi Bhabha Medal of Hari Om Ashram Trust,K G Naik Gold Medal of MS University of Baroda.
Doraiswamy is survived by his son Deepak,daughter Sandhya Raghavan (and her husband Sankar) and three grandchildren Rahul Raghavan,Priya Raghavan and Maya Doraiswamy.
