Century of Nobel Prizes : 1909 Chemistry Laureate

Shridhar R Gadre is a professor of physical chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Pune. He has been actively working in the area of theoretical and computational chemistry. He feels that the history of the development of a concept should .be inextricably woven into the teaching of a topic. Similarly, the subject could be made more lively by incorporating brief biographical sketches as well as anecdotes of the pioneers who developed the discipline. History of science, chess and trekking are his hobbies.