Narayana Sathyamurthy is an eminent scientist in India. He is the founding director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research

IISER Mohali

The Indian Institute of Science Education Research Mohali has been established as an autonomous academic institution in 2007 by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India, New Delhi, to research in frontier areas of science and to provide science education at the...

 (IISER), Mohali

Mohali

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, Punjab

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, India

India

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. He completed his B.Sc.

Bachelor of Science

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 and M.Sc.

Master of Science

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 degrees from Annamalai University

Annamalai University

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. Sathyamurthy moved to the United States

United States

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 where he obtained his Ph.D

Doctor of Philosophy

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 degree at Oklahoma University in 1975. He further carried out postdoctoral research in nobel laureate J.C.Polanyi

John Charles Polanyi

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's laboratory. After that Sathyamurthy joined the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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 as a lecturer in 1978. Sathyamurthy became a professor in 1985.

Contribution to chemical science

• Theoretical chemistry
  Chemistry
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• Molecular reaction dynamics
• Computational chemistry
  Chemistry
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