Balasubramanian Sundaram is an Indian

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. He holds a position at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in

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. In 2011, he was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in

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, in the chemical sciences category."11 scientists selected for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award" ibn live, Sep 26,201

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century Indian chemists Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Science {{chemist-stub