I wish to introduce through these pages now A scientist from Karnataka state in south India.He is young, quite a good achiever , and likes to develop simpler and easy methods in processing and testing .Yet, he is a joyous, friendly person easily mixing with others without any pride of a scientist.

He is -Dr.P.Nagaraj, A scientist at the University of Mysore.

Bio-sketch

Name-Dr.P.Nagaraj

Father's name -Padmarajaiah

Date of birth-9-6-1958 ;Religion- Jain

Qualifications- M.Sc(chemistry),Ph,D

Occupation- Presently-Reader,Department of Chemistry,Manasagangotri

University of Mysore. MYSORE-560006 (INDIA)

Experience in the field of teaching- 22 years , at the post-graduate level.

Ph.D guidance -12 successful Ph.D candidates.

Research papers published-112 ,as on 30-8-2007

Personal e-mail: nagarajap58@yahoo.co.in.

nagarajap@mailcity.com contact no:91-0821-2412557(Res)

Field of specialisation -Analytical chemistry,Bio-analytical chemistry,Environmentel science.

CITATIONS- Over 12,520 citations are available in various science journals, about his research papers and methods developed by him.

MAIN AREA OF RESEARCH :

Development/Improvement of reagentsfor spectrophotometric determination of metals,non-metals,pesticides,drugs and enzymes.

Major achievements:They include-development of regents for the analysis ofmany pharmasuitically important drugslike anti-cancer drugs and compoundsof environmentinterest. ( as stated in famous -Marquis who is who in science and engineering,10th anniversary edition-2008-2009.)

Major project now working -

On developing better methods for quantification of antitoxidant activity;Application of the developed methods for the screening of free radical scaveging of antioxidats.

Minor project at hand: Analytical studies on the development of nove,specific and sensitive reagents for the determination of non-metallic ions in environmental samples.

Publications found in- World -level jounals like-

1 Annal.Biochemistry

2 International Journal of Pharmaceuitics-325,113-120(2002)

3Chemistry and Bio-Diversity-4,89-97(2007)

4 Anal.Science(2002) and many more of the same standard.

Awards and honours

This Scientist has been recognised fairly.Two prestigious awards are conferred on him.They are-

1 Sir C.V.Raman young scientist award for outstanding achievements in chemical Science(2000)

2 .Prof.H.Sanke Gowda Nstional Research award for the year 2001-2002

Apart from these, this scientist has been facilitated by various orgasnisations in India.

Dr.P.Nagaraj visited U.S.A. in 2007 as a scientist to pressent two research papers at the annual convention of'Association of Analytical Chemists'-Which is a world level organisation.

FAMILY SIDE

Dr.P.Nagaraj is a happy family person with talented Mrs.Roopa Nagaraj as his wife,He has two cute daughters-Meghana and Disha Kalvappu.

It is important to note that Dr, Nagaraj hails from an ordinary middle -class family from the rural place of Shravanabelagola(Where you find the largest free-standing monolithic statue in the world),in Karnataka.

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