Dr. Chetput Venkatasubban Seshadri (14 April 1930 – 17 September 1995) was a distinguished

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who was chair of

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. IIT Kanpur today has an endowed chair named for him, the C. V. Seshadri Professorship.

Career

He received his PhD from

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, and was then at the

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as a postdoctoral research associate. He started his independent academic career as an assistant professor of

in 1965. Later he became a professor and finally the head of the Chemical Engineering Department of IITK. He also served as the dean of students' affairs at IITK. He was the founding director of the Shri AMM Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre. During his tenure as a director, this Research Center won

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for Application of Science and Technology for Rural Development in 1981. In 2008, the C. V. Seshadri chair of professorship was instituted at the

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. Prof. Yogesh M. Joshi is the present occupant of this chair.

Family

He was a Calamur: brother to C. V. Ranganathan and C. V. Karthik Narayanan, brother-in-law to

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, cousin to Aryama Sundaram,

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, and C. V. Karthikeyan, nephew of

C. R. Pattabhiraman Chetput Ramaswami Pattabhiraman (; 11 November 1906 – 19 June 2001) was an Indian lawyer and politician from the Indian National Congress. He was the eldest son of Indian statesman C. P. Ramaswami Iyer. He served as a Member of Indian Parliam ...

, grandson of Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer, grandnephew of Sir

C.V. Kumaraswami Sastri ''Diwan Bahadur'' Sir Calamur Viravalli Kumaraswami Sastri Knight Bachelor, Kt. (19 July 1870 – 24 April 1934) was an Indian jurist, statesman, and Sanskrit scholar who was leader of the Madras Bar as a Vakil of the High Court, before being a ...

and C.V. Viswanatha Sastri, and great-great-great-grandson of

C. V. Runganada Sastri The Right Hon. ''Calamur Viravalli'' Runganada Sastri (c.15 February 1819/1820 – 5 July 1881) was an Indian interpreter, civil servant, jurist, civil servant, polyglot (person), polyglot, and Social reformers of India, social reformer, wh ...

. Extended uncles include Shankaracharya Bharati Krishna Tirthaji, and C. Sivaramamurti.

References

External links

Shri A M M Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre, Chennai
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