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'''Uttamchand Khimchand Sheth''' (1920–2000) was an Indian clinical pharmacologist and the director of [[King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College]].<ref name="Professor Uttamchand Khimchand Sheth (1920-2000)">{{Cite web |url=http://archive.nmji.in/archives/Volume-13/issue-6/obituaties-2.pdf |title=Professor Uttamchand Khimchand Sheth (1920-2000) |date=2017 |publisher=National Medical Journal of India}}</ref> | '''Uttamchand Khimchand Sheth''' (1920–2000) was an Indian clinical pharmacologist and the director of [[King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College]].<ref name="Professor Uttamchand Khimchand Sheth (1920-2000)">{{Cite web |url=http://archive.nmji.in/archives/Volume-13/issue-6/obituaties-2.pdf |title=Professor Uttamchand Khimchand Sheth (1920-2000) |date=2017 |publisher=National Medical Journal of India}}</ref> | ||
==Life== | |||
Sheth was born on 29 October 1920 in Mumbai in [[Maharastra]], he was known for his pharmacological studies and contributions in promoting medical education in pharmacology.<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 | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999}}</ref> | |||
Sheth, [[Bimal Kumar Bachhawat]] and [[Nilima Arun Kshirsagar]] are credited with creating with creating the research and academic structure for teaching pharmacology in India.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Patil|first=Popat N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nqmEQIxqEs0C&dq=nilima+Kshirsagar&pg=PA733|title=Discoveries in Pharmacological Sciences|page=733|date=2012|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-4355-07-0|language=en}}</ref> | |||
He was the author of a book on pharmacology, ''Selected Topics in Experimental Pharmacology''.<ref name="Sheth1972">{{cite book|author=U. K. Sheth|title=Selected Topics in Experimental Pharmacology: By U.K. Sheth, N.K. Dadkar and Usha G. Kamat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DHjxygAACAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Kothari Book Depot}}</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, for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 1967.<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=12 November 2016}}</ref> He was also a recipient of Amrut Mody Award (1971) and [[B. C. Roy Award]], the highest Indian medical award, which he received in 1978.<ref name="Professor Uttamchand Khimchand Sheth (1920-2000)" /> An elected fellow of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]],<ref name="NAMS Deceased Fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://nams-india.in/downloads/obit.pdf |title=NAMS Deceased Fellows |date=2017 |publisher=National Academy of Medical Sciences}}</ref> he died on 29 July 2000, at the age of 79.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=278 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize}}</ref> | |||
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