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{{Infobox scientist
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1923|06|17}}
| birth_place = [[Chakwal]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British Raj]] (now in [[Pakistan]])
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| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Organic chemistry]] | Natural products chemistry }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Indian Institute of Science]] [[National Chemical Laboratory]] Malti-Chem Research Centre, Nandesari [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[University of the Punjab]] [[Panjab University]] }}
| doctoral_advisor = Praphulla Chandra Guha [[John D. Roberts]]
| doctoral_students = [[Goverdhan Mehta]]
| known_for = Researches on [[terpenoids]] Contributions to the development of [[guggulsterone]]
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]] [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]] [[Indian Institute of Science|IISc]] Sudborough Medal
[[Indian Chemical Society|ICS]] Acharya P. C. Ray Award [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Vishwakarma Medal [[American Chemical Society|ACS]] Ernest Guenther Award [[Indian Institute of Science|IISc]] Distinguished Alumnus Award [[VASVIK Industrial Research Award]] [[Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry|FICCI]] Award [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Professor T. R. Seshadri Seventieth Birthday Commemoration Medal [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Meghnad Saha Medal [[Third World Academy of Sciences]] Award [[Indian Science Congress Association|ISCA]] Srinivasan Ramanujan Birth Centenary Award [[Indian Chemical Society|ICS]] Lifetime Achievement Award [[Chemical Research Society of India|CRSI]] Lifetime Achievement Award
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'''Sukh Dev''' [[Indian National Science Academy|FNA]], [[Indian Academy of Sciences|FASc]] (born 1923) is an Indian organic chemist, academic, researcher and writer, known for his contributions in the development of [[Guggulsterone]], a plant-derived steroid used as a therapeutic and nutritional agent.<ref name="A Tribute ">{{cite web | url=http://www.arkat-usa.org/get-file/19562/ | title=A Tribute | publisher=ARKAT USA | date=2016 | access-date=21 June 2016}}</ref> He has conducted advanced research in biomedical science and natural products chemistry and holds 55 patents for his findings.<ref name="Citation">{{cite web | url=http://www.iitd.ac.in/convocation/2008/DDS_sukhdev.pdf | title=Citation | publisher=Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi | date=2016 | access-date=21 June 2016}}</ref>

He is a recipient of several honors including the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], the highest Indian award in science and technology.<ref name="A Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=81 | title=A Brief Profile of the Awardee | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=2016 | access-date=21 June 2016}}</ref> In 2008, the Government of India awarded him the [[Padma Bhushan]], the third highest civilian honour of India, for his contributions to science and technology.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2016 | access-date=3 January 2016}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Sukh Dev was born on 17 June 1923<ref name="A Brief Profile of the Awardee" /> at [[Chakwal]], in the [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab province]] of then- [[British India]] to Hari Chand Lala and Maya Vanti.<ref name="A Tribute to Prof. Sukh Dev">{{cite journal | url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/ark/5550190.0004.301?rgn=main;view=fulltext#top | title=A Tribute to Prof. Sukh Dev | author=Vishwakarma Singh; A. Srikrishna | journal= Arkivoc| date=January 2003 | volume=2003 | issue=3 | pages=1–7 | doi=10.3998/ark.5550190.0004.301| doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="J.ICS Sukh Dev Commemorative Issue">{{cite journal | title=Journal of the Indian Chemical Society: Professor Sukh Dev 75th Birthday Commemorative Issue | author=Sunil K. Talapatra | journal=Journal of the Indian Chemical Society | date=October–December 1998 | volume=75 | issue=10–12 | pages=1–3 }}</ref> He graduated with honors from [[Islamia College (Lahore)|Dayanand Anglo Vedic College, Lahore]] of the [[Punjab University, Lahore|Punjab University]] in 1943 and secured his master's degree (MSc) from the same institution in 1945.<ref name="Citation" /> He then joined the [[Indian Institute of Science]], Bangalore (IISc) as a research associate. Moving to India after the [[Partition of India|Partition]], he studied under noted natural products chemist Praphulla Chandra Guha at the IISc, obtaining his PhD in 1948.<ref name="J.ICS Sukh Dev Commemorative Issue"/> After taking his doctorate, he conducted post-doctoral research at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] with [[John D. Roberts]].<ref name="J.ICS Sukh Dev Commemorative Issue"/>

From 1951 to 1953, he was a senior research fellow at the IISc. and continued there as a lecturer in organic chemistry from 1953 to 1959, with a brief stint as a research associate at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]] in 1957-58 under [[Elias James Corey]].<ref name="J.ICS Sukh Dev Commemorative Issue"/> After securing the degree of DSc from IISC in 1960, he joined the [[National Chemical Laboratory|National Chemical Laboratory, Pune]] the same year as the Head (Assistant Director) of the Organic Chemistry (Natural Products) Division where he stayed till 1974, with a promotion to deputy director in 1968.<ref name="J.ICS Sukh Dev Commemorative Issue"/> In 1974, he was appointed director of the Malti-Chem Research Centre in [[Nandesari]] where he worked till 1988.<ref name="A Tribute to Prof. Sukh Dev" /><ref name="J.ICS Sukh Dev Commemorative Issue"/> In 1989, he joined the [[Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi]] as the INSA S. N. Bose Research Professor, shifting to the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centre For Biomedical Research of [[Delhi University]] in 1994 where he is a visiting professor.<ref name="Citation" /><ref name="J.ICS Sukh Dev Commemorative Issue"/>

== Legacy ==
Sukh Dev is known to have been involved in researches on [[terpenoids]] and have contributed to the structural elucidation of a number of them. It was during these investigations, he discovered new skeletal types in Sesqui- and [[diterpenoid]]s.<ref name="A Brief Profile of the Awardee" /> Based on his researches, he proposed two rules; the Absolute Stereochemistry Biogenetic Rule and that exotic biological materials tend to produce exotic secondary metabolites.<ref name="A Tribute to Prof. Sukh Dev" /> He focused a part of his research on [[lac]], [[turpentine]], [[Cedrus deodara]] (Devadaaru) and Indian medicinal plants such as ''Guggulu'' [[Commiphora wightii]], the last of which has resulted in the development of [[Guggulsterone]], a steroid claimed to have [[cholesterol]]-lowering and nutrient properties.<ref name="Citation" /> His researches have earned him 55 patents and the body of his work has been documented in over 290 scientific articles. he has published 10 books, including ''Prime Ayurvedic Plant Drugs'', a 2006 publication which explores the ancient and modern traditions of [[Ayurveda]].<ref name="Dev2006">{{cite book|author=Sukh Dev|title=Prime Ayurvedic Plant Drugs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pv5sAAAAMAAJ|date=January 2006|publisher=Anshan|isbn=978-1-904798-44-6}}</ref> He has also mentored 92 research scholars,<ref name="Pioneering chemist Sukh Dev to be felicitated">{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/rajkot/Pioneering-chemist-Sukh-Dev-to-be-felicitated/articleshow/11557444.cms | title=Pioneering chemist Sukh Dev to be felicitated | publisher=Times of India | date=19 January 2012 | access-date=21 June 2016}}</ref> which included many notable scientists.<ref name="Vishwakarma Singh F.N.A">{{cite web | url=http://www.chem.iitb.ac.in/people/Faculty/prof/group/vks.htm | title=Vishwakarma Singh F.N.A | publisher=IITB | date=2016 | access-date=21 June 2016}}</ref><ref name="Dr. S. P. Acharya ">{{cite web | url=http://acharyagroup.com/abus/people.html | title=Dr. S. P. Acharya | publisher=Acharya Group | date=2016 | access-date=21 June 2016}}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
Sukh Dev received the Sudborough Medal of the [[Indian Institute of Science]] in 1949 when he was working at the institution as a research associate<ref name="Citation" /> but the first major award came his way in 1964 when the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] (CSIR) awarded him [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], the highest Indian honor in the science and technology categories.<ref name="A Brief Profile of the Awardee" /> In the 1970s, he received two awards; Acharya P. C. Ray Award of [[Indian Chemical Society]] in 1970 and Vishwakarma Medal of [[Indian National Science Academy]] in 1979.<ref name="INSA Awards">{{cite web | url=http://www.insaindia.org.in/recipients.php#abs | title=INSA Awards | publisher=INSA | date=2016 | access-date=22 June 2016}}</ref> The [[American Chemical Society]] awarded him the Ernest Guenther Award in 1980<ref name="Ernest Guenther Award">{{cite web | url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/national/bytopic/ernest-guenther-award-in-the-chemistry-of-natural-products.html?_ga=1.127616077.1741299174.1466586807 | title=Ernest Guenther Award | publisher=American Chemical Society | date=2016 | access-date=22 June 2016}}</ref> and he was selected for the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the [[Indian Institute of Science]],<ref name="IISc Distinguished Alumnus Award">{{cite web | url=http://www.iiscalumni.com/news-events/awards-achievements.htm | title=IISc Distinguished Alumnus Award | publisher=Indian Institute of Science Alumni Association | date=2016 | access-date=22 June 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528224000/http://iiscalumni.com/news-events/awards-achievements.htm | archive-date=28 May 2016 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> the [[VASVIK Industrial Research Award]],<ref name="Vasvik Award">{{cite web | url=http://www.vasvik.org/chemical_sciences_&_technology.html | title=Vasvik Award | publisher=Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra | date=2016 | access-date=22 June 2016}}</ref> and the FICCI Award of the [[Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry]] the same year. He received two awards from the Indian National Science Academy in the 1980s, Professor T. R. Seshadri Seventieth Birthday Commemoration Medal in 1981 and Meghnad Saha Medal in 1987.<ref name="INSA Awards" />

Sukh Dev, who held the ''[[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] S. N. Bose Research Professorship'' of the [[Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi]] from 1988 to 1993, received the [[TWAS Prize]] in 1988<ref name="Prizes and Awards">{{Cite web |url=http://twas.org/opportunities/prizes-and-awards |title=Prizes and Awards |date=2016 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences}}</ref> and the Srinivasan Ramanujan Birth Centenary Award of the [[Indian Science Congress Association]] in 1992. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by two Indian chemical societies, the [[Indian Chemical Society]] in 1999 and the [[Chemical Research Society of India]] in 2000.<ref name="Citation" /> The Government of India included him in the [[Indian honours system|Republic Day honors]] list in 2008 for the civilian award of the [[Padma Bhushan]].

== See also ==
* [[Guggulsterone]]
* [[Diterpenoid]]
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=http://dept.saurashtrauniversity.edu/chemistry/index.php/department/research/research-area/13-research/16-gallary | title=XXXI Anual Conference: ICC | publisher=Saurashtra University | date=2012 | access-date=22 June 2016}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book|author=Sukh Dev|title=Prime Ayurvedic Plant Drugs|date=January 2006|publisher=Anshan|isbn=978-1-904798-44-6}}

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