Draft:B. C. Subba Rao

Bookinkere Channakeshavaiah Subba Rao (December 8, 1923 – August 9th, 2017) was an Indian organic and industrial chemist.

Academic life and career
He received his B.Sc and M.Sc from Mysore university in 1944 and 1946 respectively. He then went on to complete his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1955 and spent the next 2 years working as a post-doc student under Herbert C. Brown.

In 1957 he returned to India where he worked for several chemical companies including the National Chemical Laboratory and Hindustan Unilever until his retirement.

Subba Rao was elected as a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1975.