Man Mohan Sharma

Man Mohan Sharma (born May 1, 1937 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan) is an eminent Indian chemical engineering scientist. He was educated at Jodhpur, Mumbai and Cambridge. At the age of 27 years, he was appointed Professor of Chemical Engineering in the University of Mumbai, Department of Chemical Technology.^[1] He later went on to become the Director of Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT/ UDCT/ UICT), the first chemical engineering professor to do so from ICT.

In 1990, he became the first Indian engineer to be elected as a Fellow of Royal Society, UK. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan (1987) and the Padma Vibhushan (2001) by the President of India. he has also been awarded the Leverhulme Medal of the Royal Society, the S.S. Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences (1973), FICCI Award (1981), the Vishwakarma medal of the Indian National Science Academy (1985), G.M. Modi Award (1991), Meghnad Saha Medal (1994), and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2001).^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Prof. Man Mohan Sharma". Chemical & Materials Eng., The University of Auckland. http://www.ecm.auckland.ac.nz/sharma.html. Retrieved 22 January 2010. ^{[dead link]}

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Name	Sharma, Man Mohan
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