Satinder Vir Kessar
Department of chemistry
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Satinder Vir Kessar did his MSc (Hons) from Hoshiarpur, Punjab. He obtained his PhD (1958) from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, under the supervision of MC Kloetzel. After a brief stint as an Assistant Professor at the Punjab Engineering College, he joined the Department of Chemistry, Panjab University as a Lecturer (1959) and later became Reader (1963) and Professor (1974). He was CSIR Distinguished Chair (1992-97) and is continuing as an Emeritus Professor at Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Research Interest
Synthetic Organic Chemistry
