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2014-09-03 / .

US Chemical Society awards Indian-American scientists

Washington: Four Indian-American scientists are among the recipients of the 2015 National Awards of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Abhijit A Namjoshi along with several of his colleagues from Dow Chemicals have been selected for the ACS Award for Team Innovation, a media release said. Neil K Garg from the University of California in Los Angeles has been selected for Arthur C Cope Scholar Awards along with nine other scientists, while Joseph Reddy, Endocyte Inc has bagged the George & Christine Sosnovsky Award for Cancer Research along with three other scientists. Thomas J Colacot from Johnson Matthey has been selected for ACS Award in Industrial Chemistry. Colacot, who studied at St Berchman's College, Changanacherry, Kerala and IIT Madras, is the first Indian to get the award, which is one of the top honours in industrial chemistry. He also holds an MBA degree and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. These recipients will be honoured at an awards ceremony on March 24, 2015, in conjunction with the 249th ACS national meeting in Denver. The Arthur C Cope Scholar Award recipients will be honoured during the national meeting in Boston, the release added.

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