Goverdhan Mehta
Department of Organic Chemistry
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Goverdhan Mehta earned his BSc and MSc from the University of Rajasthan and PhD from the University of Poona, working at the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) under the mentorship of Sukh Dev. His post-doctoral research at the Michigan State University under Don Farnum and at the Ohio State University under Paul Gassman was on the chemistry of strained polycyclic systems that led to the first preparation of the long sought parent cyclopopenyl cation. He first joined IIT Kanpur and then moved to the newly established University of Hyderabad as Professor of Chemistry (1977) and finally to the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore (1998). He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad (1994-98) and Director of IISc (1998-2005). He has received the DSc (hc) from over a dozen universities in India and overseas.
Research Interest
Organic Chemistry
