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{{Short description|Indian scientist (1935–2018)}}
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| birth_date = 1935
| birth_place = [[British India]]
| death_date = 9 October 2018 (aged 82–83)
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| occupation = Scientist
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| known for = [[Enzymology]]
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| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]] [[Padma Shri]] Acharya P. C. Ray Memorial Medal Professor B. N. Ghosh Memorial Award Soka University Award of Highest Honor New Millennium Plaque of Honour Vigyan Gaurav Award Excellence in Science Gold Medal Asutosh Mookherjee Memorial Award R. C. Mehrotra Memorial Life Time Achievement Award
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'''Sarvagya Singh Katiyar''' (1935 – 9 October 2018<ref>{{Cite web |title=Padma Bhusan Awardee Scientist, 86, Dies Of Suspected Poisoning: Official |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/sarvagya-singh-katiyar-padma-bhusan-awardee-scientist-86-dies-of-suspected-poisoning-official-1929510 |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=NDTV.com}}</ref>), [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry|FRSC]], popularly known as '''S. S. Katiyar''', was an Indian scientist<ref name="Marquis Who's Who">{{cite web | url=http://bios.marquiswhoswho.com/sarvagya_singh_katiyar/chemistry_educator/5471014 | title=Marquis Who's Who | publisher=Marquis Who's Who | date=2015 | access-date=7 February 2015 | archive-date=8 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208113246/http://bios.marquiswhoswho.com/sarvagya_singh_katiyar/chemistry_educator/5471014 | url-status=dead }}</ref> specializing in [[enzymology]], and the founder Director of [[Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University]], [[Lucknow]].<ref name="INSA">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.org.in/detail.php?id=N83-0365 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812231950/http://insaindia.org.in/detail.php?id=N83-0365 | url-status=usurped | archive-date=12 August 2016 | title=INSA | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2015 | access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref> He is a former president of the [[Association of Indian Universities]] and a former vice chancellor of [[Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University]], Kanpur<ref name="TOI">{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/Professor-SS-Katiyar-former-President-A-I-U-and-former-Vice-Chancellor-Chatrapati-Shahu-Ji-Maharaj-Medical-University-Kanpur-to-inaugurate-5th-Chandigarh-Science-Congress-CHASCON-2011-on-Saturday/articleshow/7571519.cms | title=TOI | publisher=Times of India | date=25 February 2011 | access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref> and [[Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology]].{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} He was honoured by the [[Government of India]] in 2003 with [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award,<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Padma Awards | date=2015 | access-date=6 February 2015 | archive-date=15 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref> followed by [[Padma Bhushan]], the third highest civilian award, in 2009.<ref name="Padma Bhushan 2009">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/list-of-padma-awardees-2009/article383151.ece | title=Padma Bhushan 2009 | work=The Hindu | date=26 January 2009 | access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="Padma Awards Given Away">{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k2Ual-NgAVMC&q=Sarvagya+Singh+Katiyar&pg=PT158 | title=Padma Awards Given Away | journal=Pratiyogita Darpan |date=October 2009 | pages=193| last1=Darpan | first1=Pratiyogita }}</ref>

==Biography==
Sarvagya Singh Katiyar, born in 1935, did his undergraduate (BSc) and master's (MSc) studies at [[Agra University]] and secured his PhD in 1962 in chemical kinetics under the guidance of N. A. Ramaiah, an [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award|S. S. Bhatnagar Award]] winner,<ref name="Ramaiah">{{cite web | url=http://www.insaindia.org/detail.php?id=N70-0599 | title=Ramaiah | publisher=INSA | date=2015 | access-date=8 February 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://archive.today/20150209174829/http://www.insaindia.org/detail.php?id=N70-0599 | archive-date=9 February 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> from the [[National Sugar Institute]], Kanpur.<ref name="INSA" /> Moving to USA, he did post doctoral research, working with John W. Porter, at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] and was successful in determining the kinetic mechanism of the enzyme fatty acid [[synthetase]] complex for the first time.<ref name="INSA" /> He returned to India to join the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] where he became the Head of the Chemistry department in 1989 and stayed with the institution till 1994 when he was appointed as the vice chancellor of Kanpur University, present day [[Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University]].<ref name="INSA" /> He held the post till his retirement in 2007 for four consecutive terms,<ref name="INSA" /> the first vice chancellor to do so in the history of the university.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

Katiyar is known to have done extensive research on enzymes and its architecture which is reported to have assisted in understanding the ''catalytic domain of [[kinases]] and [[dehydrogenases]]'' and expanded the usage of enzymes for catalytic reactions for industrial purposes and as diagnostic tools.<ref name="INSA" /> His researches have been documented by way of over 125 scientific papers published in peer reviewed journals.<ref name="Microsoft Academic Search">{{cite web | url=http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/20209374/sarvagya-s-katiyar | title=Microsoft Academic Search | publisher=Microsoft Academic Search | date=2015 | access-date=8 February 2015 | archive-date=19 February 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160219210359/http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/20209374/sarvagya-s-katiyar | url-status=dead }}</ref> He has also guided several master's and doctoral students in their studies.<ref name="INSA" /> The first biochemistry-biotechnology laboratory was established at the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] during his tenure as the head of the department there.<ref name="INSA" /> He is also known to have initiated 50 new courses at [[Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University]] as its vice chancellor.<ref name="INSA" /> His contributions are noted behind the establishment of [[Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University]], Lucknow where he was a founder director<ref name="INSA" />
and has served as the vice chancellor of [[Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology]].{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

Katiyar is an elected fellow of [[The World Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="TWAS">{{cite web | url=http://twas.org/member/katiyar-sarvagya-singh | title=TWAS | publisher=The World Academy of Sciences | date=2015 | access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref> [[National Academy of Sciences, India]],<ref name="NASI">{{cite web | url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=K | title=NASI | publisher=NASI | date=2015 | access-date=8 February 2015 | archive-date=15 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315081652/http://nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=K | url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Indian National Science Academy]] and the [[New York Academy of Sciences]]. He is also a fellow of [[American Institute of Chemists]] and the [[Royal Society of Chemistry]], UK.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} He is a former president of the [[Association of Indian Universities]]<ref name="Edge Forum">{{cite web | url=http://edgeforum.in/edge2011/edge-awards.html | title=Edge Forum | publisher=Edge Forum | date=2015 | access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref> and the [[Indian Science Congress Association]],<ref name="The Shaping of Indian Science: 1982-2003">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G700JFQreS8C&q=S.+S.+Katiyar&pg=PA2014 | title=The Shaping of Indian Science: 1982-2003 | publisher=Universities Press | author=Indian Science Congress Association | year=2003 | pages=788 | isbn=9788173714344}}</ref> and he has served the ''Uttar Pradesh State Council for Higher Education'' as its chairman.<ref name="INSA" /> He was a member of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] as a member and as an additional member.<ref name="INSA" /> He is the founder of the Prof. S. S. Katiyar Charitable Society, which has instituted the Prof. S. S. Katiyar Endowment Lecture award under the aegis of the [[Indian Science Congress Association]].<ref name="ISCA">{{cite web | url=http://www.sciencecongress.nic.in/html/s_s_katiyar_c3.php | title=ISCA | publisher=ISCA | date=2015 | access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="University of Pune">{{cite web | url=http://www.unipune.ac.in/admin/Circular/ISCA%20Sectional%20Award.pdf | title=University of Pune | publisher=University of Pune | date=2015 | access-date=8 February 2015}}</ref>

Katiyar, a visiting professor at [[Tokyo University]],{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} received the Acharya P. C. Ray Memorial Medal in 1990 and the Professor B. N. Ghosh Memorial Award in 1995. In 2001, he received the Soka University Award of Highest Honor, and he received three awards in 2003: the New Millennium Plaque of Honour for Chemical Sciences, Vigyan Gaurav Award from the [[Government of Uttar Pradesh]] and the national civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] from the [[Government of India]].<ref name="INSA" /> He is also a recipient of Gold Medal for Excellence in Science (2006), the Asutosh Mookherjee Memorial Award (2008) and the R. C. Mehrotra Memorial Life Time Achievement Award (2009).<ref name="INSA" /> The [[Government of India]] honoured him again in 2009 with the [[Padma Bhushan]].<ref name="Padma Bhushan 2009" /><ref name="Padma Awards Given Away" />

==See also==
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* [[Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University]]
* [[Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University]]
* [[Association of Indian Universities]]
* [[Indian Science Congress Association]]
*[[University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kanpur]]
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