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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|11|13|df=yes}}
| birth_place = India
| death_date = {{death date|1978|1|12|df=yes}}
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| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Organic chemistry]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Indian Institute of Science]] }}
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| known_for = Studies on cyclic allenes and medium-ring dines
| awards = {{ublist | 1976 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] }}
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'''Devadas Devaprabhakara''' (1932–1978) was an Indian organic chemist and a professor at the department of chemistry of the [[Indian Institute of Science]].<ref name="A Regio-and Stereo-Specific Addition of Iodine Azide to C-9 and C-13 Cyclic Allenes">{{Cite web |url=http://moorthy.co.in/a-regio-and-stereo-specific-addition-of-iodine-azide-to-c-9-and-c-13-cyclic-allenes.html |title=A Regio-and Stereo-Specific Addition of Iodine Azide to C-9 and C-13 Cyclic Allenes |date=2016 |publisher=Sr. S. N. Moorthy}}</ref> He was known for his studies on cyclic allenes and medium-ring dines.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=254 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=November 12, 2016}}</ref> His researches on the reduction, hydroporation and isomerization of them and his synthesis of a number of [[cyclic hydrocarbons]] have assisted in rationalizing the understanding of the substrates.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners |date=2016 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |access-date=1 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He published his researches by way of several peer-reviewed articles;<ref name="Records">{{Cite web |url=http://www.sciencecentral.in/index.php/browse/index/all?sortOrderId=&recordsPage=1612 |title=Records |date=2016 |publisher=Science Central}}</ref> the inline repository of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] have listed 48 of them.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Ramakrishnan=3ASubramaniam=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> He was also an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Ramakrishnan,_Prof._Subramaniam |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=November 12, 2016}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1976, for his contributions to chemical sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=November 12, 2016}}</ref> He died on 12 January 1978, at the age of 45.<ref name="Fellow profile" />

== See also ==
* [[Cyclic hydrocarbons]]
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite journal |author1=Bal Krishan Kaul |author2=Arvind P. Kudchadker |author3=Devadas Devaprabhakara |title=Investigation of temperature dependence of the interaction second virial coefficient using gas–liquid chromatography |journal=J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 1 |publication-date=1973 |volume=69 |pages=1821–1826 |doi=10.1039/F19736901821|year=1973 }}

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[[Category:Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences]]
[[Category:Indian organic chemists]]
[[Category:Indian Institute of Science faculty]]

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