Gopalpur Nagendrappa obtained Bsc degree from the university of Mysore and Msc degree from Bangalore University securing first rank in both, followed by a Phd degree in organic chemistry from IIT, Kanpur. He did postdoctoral research in Germany with the support of DAAD and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and in the USA as a NIH fellow. He started his professional career in 1973 as associate professor at the University of Agricultureal Sciences, Bangalore, moved to Bangalore University in 2003, continued his teaching activity as visiting professor. He revisited Germany several times during his service as visiting scientist under various programmes. He worked for two years as professor of medicinal chemistry at SRU in Chennai. After coming back to Bangalore, he joined Jain University where he is currently engaged in teaching and research. He has guided many students for their Phd work, published about eighty research papers in synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry and more than thirty articles related to chemistry education including short biographies of eminent chemists. He has been on the editorial board of Resonance Journal of Science Education published by the Indian Academy of Sciences and Springer. he has authored Kannada books on illustrious chemists. Apart from teaching and guiding research, he is serving the cause of education in other ways too; as for example, he has been part of JSS Foundation for Science and Society, Bangalore, and presently he is the honorary secretary of the SJR Education Society, Bangalore.
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