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Prof. T. R. Seshadri was a pioneer of natural-products chemistry. He worked out the structures of many flavonoid pigments found in plants and built the University of Delhi's chemistry department into a leading research school, guiding about 160 doctoral students.
Key contributions
- Isolated and determined the structures of many flavonoid plant pigments
- Founded the Centre for Advanced Study in the Chemistry of Natural Products, University of Delhi
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1960); Padma Bhushan (1963)