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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Arunachala Sreenivasan<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1909|07|13}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Tamil Nadu]], India<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1996|07|20|1909|07|13}}<br />
| death_place = India<br />
| occupation = Food technologist<br />
| known for = Food technology<br>Nutritional science<br />
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Arunachala Sreenivasan''' (1909–1996) was an Indian food technologist, nutritional scientist and the director of Cancer Research Institute of the [[Tata Memorial Centre]], Mumbai.<ref name="Deceased Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.org.in/deceaseddetail.php?id=N500794 | title=Deceased Fellow | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2016 | access-date=21 April 2016}}</ref> Born on 13 July 1909 in [[Tamil Nadu]] and after receiving the degree of Doctor of Science from the [[University of Madras]] in 1936, he served in various positions such as Deputy Director of [[Central Food Technological Research Institute]], (1959–64), Head of Biochemistry and Food Technology Division of [[Bhabha Atomic Research Centre]], (1964–71), Adviser at the [[Department of Atomic Energy]], and as the Emeritus Scientist of BARC (1971–73), before superannuating from Tata Memorial Centre in 1975. He was an elected Fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] and his research findings<ref name="Determination of Carotene in Plant Materials">{{cite journal | title=Determination of Carotene in Plant Materials |author1=Arunachala. Sreenivasan |author2=R. M. Vaidya | journal=Anal. Chem. | year=1948 | volume=20 | issue=8 | pages=720–722 | doi=10.1021/ac60020a008}}</ref><ref name="Selenium as Catalyst in Kjeldahl Digestions">{{cite journal | title=Selenium as Catalyst in Kjeldahl Digestions |author1=S. M. Patel |author2=Arunachala. Sreenivasan | journal=Anal. Chem. | year=1948 | volume=20 | issue=1 | pages=63–65 | doi=10.1021/ac60013a015}}</ref> have been documented by way of several articles.<ref name="Regulation of mitochondrial protein turnover by thyroid hormone(s)">{{cite journal | pmc=1172481 | title=Regulation of mitochondrial protein turnover by thyroid hormone(s) |author1=Medha S. Rajwade |author2=Surendra S. Katyare |author3=Prema Fatterpaker |author4=Arunachala Sreenivasan |name-list-style=amp | journal=Biochem. J. | year=November 1975 | volume=152 | issue=2 | pages=379–387 | doi=10.1042/bj1520379 | pmid=177002}}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1974, for his contributions to science.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2016 |access-date=3 January 2016 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref> Sreenivasan died on 20 July 1996 at the age of 87.<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of Madras University alumni]]<br />
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