P. Krishnamurti

Panchapakesa Krishnamurti (also spelt as Krishnamoorthy / Krishnamurthy), (22 January 1903 – 14 March 1966) was a scientist and industrialist in India.

In 1929, Dr. Krishnamurti co-authored a paper along with Sir C.V. Raman titled, 'A New X-ray Effect', published in the Nature magazine.

[1] In 1930, Sir C.V. Raman referred to the immense contributions made by Dr. Krishnamurti in his Nobel prize acceptance lecture: "I should also like to draw attention to the work of Krishnamurti, who has traced a remarkable dependence of the intensity of the spectral lines observed in scattering on the nature of the chemical bond, and followed the transition from the homopolar to the heteropolar type of chemical combination.

They established four factories across south India and the company is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

[3][4] Dr. Krishnamurthi founded Titan Paints and Chemicals in 1945 in the city of Coimbatore, which was later acquired by Lakshmi Machine Works (LMW).