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Bookinkere Channakeshavaiah Subba Rao
BornDecember 8th 1923
Mysore, India
DiedAugust 9th 2017
NationalityIndian
Scientific career
FieldsOrganic Chemistry, Industrial chemistry

Bookinkere Channakeshavaiah Subba Rao (December 8, 1923 – August 9th, 2017) was an Indian organic and industrial chemist.

Academic life and career

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He received his B.Sc and M.Sc from Mysore university in 1944 and 1946 respectively. He then went on to complete his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1955 and spent the next 2 years working as a post-doc student under Herbert C. Brown.[1]

In 1957 he returned to India where he worked for several chemical companies including the National Chemical Laboratory and Hindustan Unilever until his retirement.[2]

Subba Rao was elected as a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1975.[3]


  1. ^ Brown, Herbert Charles (1980). Hydroboration : with supplement, Nobel lecture (2nd ed.). Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Co. pp. 280–281. ISBN 978-0805315011. Archived from the original on 2023-05-12.
  2. ^ Kulkarni, Surendra U; Periasamy, Mariappan (10 October 2017). "B. C. Subba Rao (1923–2017)". Current Science. 113 (7): 1458–1459.
  3. ^ "Indian Academy of Sciences". fellows.ias.ac.in. Retrieved 2024-07-16.