M. V. George

Manapurathu Verghese George (3 October 1928 - 9 December 2019) was an Indian photochemist and an emeritus professor of the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST).

[citation needed] He returned to India in 1963 and started his career as a member of faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

[citation needed] He stayed at the institution for quarter of a century until 1988 during which period he headed the Department of Chemistry from 1966 to 1969, succeeding C. N. R.

[10] His studies covered different areas of organometallic chemistry and he worked on electron transfer processes, organic reactions and functional group transformations.

[17] He received the C. V. Raman Award in 1985 and the Professor T. R. Seshadri 70th Birthday Commemoration Medal of the Indian National Science Academy in 1990.