Man Mohan Sharma is an eminent India

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n chemical engineering scientist. He was educated at Jodhpur, Mumbai

Mumbai

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 and Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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. At the age of 27 years, he was appointed Professor of Chemical Engineering in the University of Mumbai

University of Mumbai

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, Department of Chemical Technology. He later went on to become the Director of Institute of Chemical Technology

Institute of Chemical Technology

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 (ICT/ UDCT/ UICT), the first chemical engineering professor to do so from ICT.

In 1990, he became the first Indian engineer to be elected as a Fellow of Royal Society

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, UK. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan

Padma Bhushan

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 (1987) and the Padma Vibhushan

Padma Vibhushan

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 (2001) by the President of India

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. he has also been awarded the Leverhulme Medal of the Royal Society

Leverhulme Medal of the Royal Society

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, the S.S. Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences (1973), FICCI Award (1981), the Vishwakarma medal of the Indian National Science Academy

Indian National Science Academy

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 (1985), G.M. Modi Award (1991), Meghnad Saha Medal (1994), and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2001).