Gidnahalii Karagappa Narayana Reddy
Chemistry
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Gidnahalli Karagappa Narayana Reddy obtained his BSc (Hons) in Chemistry from Mysore University in 1948. Thereafter, he joined as Lecturer in First grade College, Tumkur. After teaching there for one year, he was deputed on a scholarship to the Banaras Hindu University from where he obtained his Master's degree (1951). In 1956, he was at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore with a Government of India Scholarship to work on high pressure reactions involving carbon monoxide and glycols, and then (in 1958) at the University College at London to work in the area of coordination chemistry for which he obtained PhD (1961). He continued to work in the Central College, Bangalore became Dean of the Faculty of Science, Bangalore University, and then Vice-Chancellor of Karnatak University, from where he retired in 1990.
Research Interest
Coordination Chemistry, Organometallics & Catalysis