Key facts
- Born
- 25 May 1974, Chennai
- State of birth
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Sector
- Science & space
- Profession
- Indian-American Scientist and professor
- Gender
- Female
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Biography
Yamuna Krishnan is a professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, where she has worked since August 2014. She was earlier a Reader in National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India. Krishnan won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology, the highest science award in India in the year 2013 in the Chemical Science category. In 2024, she was named the Louis Block Professor of Chemistry and the college.
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Timeline
- 1974Born in Chennai
- 2013Awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
- 2017Awarded the Infosys Prize
- 2020Awarded the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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